Encyclopedias
- Wikipedia: Please use it with care. Verify the facts. Do not cite from it in your papers.
- World Book Online: Good starting place for most research. K-12 PUSD resource. Login with username and password on back of ID card. Citation information at bottom of all articles. Primary Source Documents, pictures and weblinks available.
Books
- Search the library catalog using keywords: colonies, 1920s,racism,entrepreneur, Stowe. 'Explore more' to locate subject headings for a more precise search.
- Reference Print History Encyclopedias- These are all multiple volume sets. They may be checked out overnight (or over a weekend). Use the index or table of contents to access information. Some of the most comprehensive are listed by Call Number below.
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Reference Room
Economics Recommendations:
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Ref 330 Economics
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Ref 330.973 Gal
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Ref 330.12 Allen
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"Inflation and deflation." Economics. Vol. 1. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2000. 86-101. Print.
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"Commodity." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Thomas Carson, Ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 197. Print.
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Allen, Larry. "Mergers (United States)". The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Capitalism. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998. 219-220. Print.
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Reference Books Available online via Gale (you will need to login with username on the back of your ID card):
American Decades American Decades Primary Sources
Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century American
Development of the Industrial U.S. Reference Library
American Civil War Reference Library
Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library
U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Databases
During the trial (to the Dec. break) we have 13 history databases for our use. After that we will be subscribing to four, World at War, American History, Modern World History and World Geography. Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card.
Best of the PHS subscription resources for history information. Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card.
Remember to click on 
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Fulltext coverage of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Daily Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. Coverage from 1851-2001. |
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Carafano, James Jay. "West Point at War: Officer Attitudes and the Vietnam War 1966-72." Journal of Popular Culture 21.4 (7 June 1996): 25. History Study Center. Web. 25 Jan. 2010.<http://www.historystudycenter.com>.
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Stoddard, Lothrop. "Should the Negro Be Encouraged to Cultural Equality?" Forum Oct. 1927: 510-519. Sirs Decades. Web. 10 May 2009. <http://decades.sirs.com>.
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Crounse, L. L. "The Great Battle of Sunday." New York Times 5 May 1863: 8. ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Web. 1 Dec. 2008. <http://hn.bigchalk.com>.
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We have expanded our subscription to the Ebsco databases. It now includes a History and Biography database that might be helpful in your research. There is an amalgamated search feature in the Ebscohost Research Databases. You will need to search the Biography database separately. The Visual Search feature is a new method of searching that allows you to define broad topic searches.
Salem Press, a book publisher has made much of it's reference books available online. Once you are at the site, click on the Remote Login tab and enter the PHS database password. You will need to register to send or save articles and citations but this is a quick and easy process.
Discovery Education is a great source for photos and videos. They can be embedded into your powerpoints. Citation information is available. The login is different from all other databases. Username: phs.lrc and Password: phs.lrc
How to download a video.
How to embed a video into a Powerpoint.
Powersearch across multiple databases. Narrow down your results by looking at the Subject headings or doing an Advanced Search with boolean logic.
Internet Resources
- 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.
- Making of America "Primary source materials reflecting American social history dating from the period before the Civil War through reconstruction (roughly, 1830-1902)" from the Univ. of Michigan digital libraries.
- AMDOCS Documents for the Study of American History, from Univ. of Kansas, part of CARRIE network.
- History Matters Primary source documents, weblinks from City University at New York and George Mason University.
- Voice of the Shuttle History links from UCSB
- 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
- 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
- Life Magazine Photo Archives
- REF: Resources for Economists on the Internet Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias.
- WebEc WWW Resources in Economics from Helinski School of Economics
- NationMaster Economic statistics, international.
- John Locke's Educational Writings
- John Locke's Two Treatises of Government
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
MLA Citation Help
Questions
Do I need to cite Microsoft Office Clipart?
- " You may copy and use the media elements in projects and documents. You may not: (i) sell, license, or distribute copies of the media elements by themselves or as a product if the primary value of the product is the media elements; (ii) grant your customers rights to further license or distribute the media elements; (iii) license or distribute for commercial purposes media elements that include the representation of identifiable individuals, governments, logos, trademarks, or emblems or use these types of images in ways that could imply an endorsement or association with your product, entity or activity; or (iv) create obscene works using the media elements. " http://explore.live.com/microsoft-service-agreement?ref=office
- Basically this means you can use it for school work without citing it. You should however, be willing and able to let your teacher know where you found all pictures in your work.
2. Can I use a map in Wikimedia?
- First you need to identify the source of the map. Remember Wikimedia is added to collaboratively by "largely anonymous internet volunteers". Not all of it's content is reliable.
- If you can locate the source and you evaluate it according to the same standards we hold for all websites, you can use it in your work. It is the actual source of the media you will cite, not Wikimedia. If the source is not verifiable, authoritative, credible,and reliable keep researching until you find a map that is.
