Quick Links:And if you ever get stuck or overwhelmed with searching, don't hesitate to ask/email Mr. Apperson and/or Ms. Barker for help!
Notes & Bibliography:
*While each database gives you the ability to cite your resource, you may need to create your own.
You are using Chicago Style.
NoodleTools
Generates citations for Chicago Citation Styles, and much more!
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Relevant Print Resources:
If our library does not have it, we can inter-library loan resources this year!
Relevant Encyclopedias:
*Note: Wikipedia is a fantastic source for initial research and topic finding. Additionally, looking at the notes, references, bibliography, and external links of articles can lead you to academic sources that will strengthen your project. Wikipedia is NOT a citable source for this caliber of research paper, DO NOT commit plagiarism by using information from these articles in your paper. Just as you would not copy sentences from a general encyclopedia, like Britannica (see below), you should not copy from Wikipedia.*
Relevant ORR Databases:
Secondary Sources:
Background Knowledge:Start by browsing some of the databases below to find a topic that you are interested in and what to purse in your project.
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Further Your Search:
*Each database has different resources that can help you in your quest.
Make sure to search each database to find new information and materials.*
Make sure to search each database to find new information and materials.*
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World History In Context
Student Edition
News (Gale OneFile)
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eLibrary
Global Issues in Context
Academic OneFile
↑↑ For More Advanced General Searches ↑↑
Classroom Video
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Ms. Barker's Favorite Primary Source Websites:
Learn about these and more below!
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Primary Source ORRHS Databases:
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Boston Public Library Databases:
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Primary Source Websites:
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Annenberg Learner
"Bridging World History is organized into 26 thematic units along a chronological thread. Materials include videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive."
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Avalon Project : Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
"Digital historical documents relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government on the World Wide Web. Currently contains, among other things, The debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison, materials relating to the Nuremberg trials, works by Thomas Jefferson, and materials relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries."
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BBC History
Fantastic resource of anything world history. Includes British, Ancient, and Family History pages, along with iWonder question resources, History for kids, and Historic Figures.
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BGSU Primary Docs
"A series of pages with links to Internet sites that include historical primary sources."
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British Newspaper Archive
"The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years."
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BYU Euro Docs
"Online Sources for European History including Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations."
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Biblioboard: Commonwealth eBook Collections
Online books, including primary sources. This website also curates resources on certain topics and museum exhibits.
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European History Primary Sources
"European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. It is also part of the WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue that is hosted at the EUI. The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe."
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Europeana Collections
"Explore 51532090 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe."
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Eyewitness to History
"First hand accounts, illustrated with vintage photos, original radio broadcasts."
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Flickr Commons
"The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives."
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Google Arts & Culture
"Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute." Includes amazing curated resources, including primary sources, that can be related to paper topics.
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Google News Archive"Google News Archive is an extension of Google News that provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.Some of the news archives date back to 1700s. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years."
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Hathi Trust
"HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."
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Internet Archive
"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
"The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
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Life
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."
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Spartacus Educational
"The Spartacus Educational website provides a series of free history encyclopaedias. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopaedia. In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail."
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UPenn Online Books Page
"Our local index includes more than 2 million works in various formats that meet these criteria. All of the books we list should be free at least for personal, noncommercial use."
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World History Matters
"World History Matters is a portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media"
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World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures."
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