Research and Course Guides: HIST 115 The World Since 1900 Kurhajec: Documentaries and Historical Videos/Images

Through the UST Libraries

Use the following sources to find period spoken word or musical recordings or period visual images

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Over 1200 historic pieces can be accessed through the Archival Films and Newsreels section of this database.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Use this database to find photographs, images of artifacts, or artworks from specific historic periods
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
Smithsonian Global Sound streaming audio database has more than 40,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds from Smithsonian/Folkways and other record labels. Included are readings of literary and dramatic works, historic speeches, language instruction, natural sounds, environmental and mechanical sounds, sound effects, children's music, and traditional music from virtually everywhere in the world. Playlists can be created for personal or classroom use.

Other credible sources

The History Channel
The HISTORY® Channel, a division of A+E Networks, provides documentary events, nonfiction series and fact-based scripted programming,
PBS
PBS is a membership organization that, in partnership with its member stations, serves the American public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.

How to cite a video from You Tube

example : "Frozen Chosin." YouTube, uploaded by Arizona Public Media, 26 October 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_6uupAEKIU.

YouTube is not an author or producer of content. Anyone can upload content to YouTube and is credited just below the title and date the video was uploaded to YouTube. (Please note that this date is not necessarily the date that the content was created.) The entity that uploaded the video must be included in your citation. You are responsible for verifying that the uploader is providing authoritative content.