Modern World History Online Video Feature Enhances Research

The award-winning publisher Facts On File has added many primary source videos to Modern World History Online. A new video gallery and player are included. The update adds more than 600 new videos. These new features enhance the already critically acclaimed history database. Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present.

The new video player is part of the “Focus on History through Video” feature on the home page. It highlights a different video selection each time users visit the database. Click the “Go to Video Gallery” link below the video player, and it opens a new gallery with all videos in the database. There are more than 1,000 clips available. Users can can sort videos in this gallery by era, providing easy access to relevant content from one convenient location.

The 600-plus new videos added to Modern World History Online are mainly historical newsreels, with a focus on World War II-era footage. The newsreels enhance the curriculum with “you are there” glimpses into particular events related to Cuban Missile Crisis, Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, the Camp David Accords, the first landing on the Moon, the Allied troops during World War II, Bill Clinton, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anwar Sadat, and more.