Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Also included are more than 440 historical videos and a dictionary tool with more than 34,000 entries that allows users to look up unfamiliar words without leaving the database.