E-Resource Spotlight: World News Digest
For more than 75 years, World News Digest has been a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and convenient new features such as tabbed search results. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. It also includes World News Digest of current (including Today’s News) and historic events (1940 to present), a searchable “What Happened on That Day” feature from 1940 to present, obituaries (1980 to present), maps, photos, historic documents, country profiles, biographies, heads of state, and more.