Junior Paper Research                   Spring 2009

Historical Research:

Books

Search the library catalog using the names of the decades e.g. 1920s or look for topics like racism, immigration, women.

Browse the 973s and 305s of both the nonfiction shelves and the reference room.

Databases

Our history databases are provided by Proquest. They include the History Study Center, SIRS Decades, and the Historical Newspapers.

Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card.  At this time the Historical Newspapers does not provide preformatted citations.  Here is an example of an MLA formatted Historical Newspapers citation:

Crounse, L. L. "The Great Battle of Sunday." New York Times 5 May 1863: 8. ProQuest Historical

       Newspapers. ProQuest. PHS Lib., Poway, CA. 1 Dec. 2008 <http://hn.bigchalk.com>.

You might consider using World Book Online for its excellent primary sources and introductory material.

Cengage-Gale databases allows you to do a powersearch across 5 databases at once. Narrow down your results by looking at the Subject headings or doing an Advanced Search with boolean logic. There is also the new Biography Resource Center and the trial Global Issues in Context, which both are excellent resources depending on the topic under consideration.  These two databases must be searched separately.

Salem Press, a book publisher has made much of it's reference books available online at Salem History. You will need to register to send or save articles and citations but this is a quick and easy process.

Internet Resources

netTrekker is an educational search engine that has many evaluated internet sites on historical topics.

You login with the username and password on the back of your ID card.

• American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress, click on ' War, Military'  for the Civil War section.  This site is especially good for women's history, African American and Native American history, and immigration.
• National Archives: Civil War  Photographs by Matthew Brady and soldier 1st person accounts of war.
• The American Presidency  Based on the Smithsonian's traveling exhibit. Includes all presidents and artifacts and information about their era in history.

• American Cultural History: The Twentieth  Century From the Kingwood College Library
• Primary Sources of American Popular Culture by the Authentic History center complete with artifacts and sounds
• 20th Century History by the Decades from Chico High School
• Chronicle of 1900-2000 extraordinary Thinquest by students Jason, Jacob, Janine, and Sizwe
• History Central: Major Events of the 20th Century For national and international news
• American History from the Multnomah County Library
• Internet Public Library  Social Sciences, see particular topic subheading e.g Ethnicity, Culture & Race
• Time Magazine Archive 1923 - present
• 20th Century Decades From About.com
• Yahoo! Twentieth Century
• Google: Twentieth Century

                                                          1959 pattern                                      1950s anticommunism poster

                                                    from Sensibility.com                         from Primary Sources in American

Colorado ratifies 19th amendment                          Little RockCentral High

from American Memory Collection                  from the 40th anniversary website

Califano Junior Research paper.doc  (Bailey's Juniors, too)