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.
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)
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