The Things They Carried

Online catalog:
iraq AND war AND (service* OR soldier* OR militar* OR veteran*)

Databases:
ABC-CLIO America at War
ProQuest Platinum
Roper iPoll

Inmigración

Books: For your research, we have an excellent collection of books. The call number for U.S. immigration is 304.873, followed by the name of the country of origin. We also have hundreds of eBooks, all of which can be accesses through the online catalog.

eBooks of interest (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT! - see left sidebar) :

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources

Encyclopedia of World Cultures

Encyclopedia of Population

Databases:

Use the school user name and password, not your personal one to access the page (see p. 41 of your NCHS planner)

Encyclopedia Britannica Multilingual

Global Issues in Context - non-American perspective on global issues (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - see sidebar

Informe (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - see sidebar)

PowerSearch - current periodicals (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - see sidebar)

ProQuest Platinum (search in Spanish and some of your results will be in Spanish)

Roper iPoll - a public opinion survey database

World Crisis

Dr. Schneider's assignment
Rubric for Tweets

Remember, you need 5 articles! Keep track of your sources as you go. Database links die, so keep track of your citations, not just links.


We are going to create a newspaper of your collected information using Twitter. We would like you to set up a Twitter account (please see Ms. Luhtala if you prefer not to. We have other options). I also recommend a  social media dashboard like:
TweetDeck
Seesmic (Windows)
Hootsuite

My favorite Twitter tutorials are on this blog (Twitter 101 and Twitter 102)

This is the NCHS social studies hashtag: #ncramsss Your Tweets will NOT be recorded if you do not include this hashtag in them, nor will they be recorded if they don't contain links!

You should, at this point, know how to get background information on your country, but just in case, here are recommended Internet sources:

• CIA World Factbook 
• The World Bank Countries & Regions
• New York Times Countries and Territories 
• UN Country Profiles

Databases:
Remember how to log in to the database page? Page 41 of your NCHS planner!




Country background information:

• ABC-CLIO World Geography
• Countries and Their Cultures
• World Data Analyst

Current events:
Power Search (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - see left sidebar)
ProQuest Platinum
Global Issues in Context (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - see left sidebar)

Social News 

Once you have a sense of what you are looking for, and what stories you want to cover, start looking for web links you can Tweet. You can't Tweet database articles. 

Kiosko.net World news services organized geographically - This is a great way to find out what today's hot stories are in countries around the world, and the names of the mainstream news sources for specific countries. 

Live Twitter feeds from various countries in the Middle East & North Africa

1. We are archiving your Tweets research in a Paper.li
2. Our Paper.Li will only capture your Tweets with links!
3. Shorten your URLs:
   http://bit.ly
   http://ow.ly
4. BEWARE! This is the real world and there may be inappropriate content including violent images. Be responsible.
5. Be critical. Review your resources carefully (rubric coming). Think about what you are looking at:

• Is your source a blog? (i.e. Facebook, Wordpress, Blogger/Blogspot)
• Is it a news source? (i.e. Reuters, NYT, BBC, Associated Press, Al-Jazeera)
• Is it a reference source (CIA World Factbook, etc...)

Hashtag reminder: #ncramsss

Ms. Luhtala on Twitter: @mluhtala

To Kill a Mockingbird

Everyone should consult the book Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird in Context (813.009). We have five copies.

Also check Google Scholar:

The following eBook collection will help you all. To conserve space here, I lumped them all together. You will need the user name and password (log into you Google Apps account, first.last@ncps-k12.org, to access document) information to access the ebook


 ABC-CLIO

• Adolf Hitler a biographical companion (ABC-CLIO)
• African Americans and Political Participation a Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Alcohol and temperance in modern history an international encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO)
• Crime in America a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Death penalty on trial a handbook with cases, laws, and documents (ABC-CLIO)
• Defendant Rights a Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Domestic Violence a Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Encyclopedia of American Jewish history (ABC-CLIO)
• Encyclopedia of Genocide (ABC-CLIO)
• Forensic Science an Encyclopedia of History, Methods, and Techniques (ABC-CLIO)
• Hate Crimes a Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Media and American Courts a Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Profiling and criminal justice in America a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Race, Racism, and Science Social Impact and Interaction (ABC-CLIO)
• Racial and ethnic diversity in America a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Racial justice in America a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Racial violence on trial a handbook with cases, laws, and documents (ABC-CLIO)
• Reconstruction: people and perspectives (ABC-CLIO)
• Sentencing a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
• Slavery in the United States a social, political, and historical encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO)
• The right to vote rights and liberties under the law (ABC-CLIO)
• Victims' rights a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)

Gale (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - instructions in left sidebar - this is in the Gale Virtual Reference library):

• Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library (Gale)
• Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources (Gale)
• Drugs Alcohol and Tobacco Learning about Addictive Behavior (Gale)
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Gale)
• Great Depression and the New Deal Reference America (Gale)
• Learning About the Holocaust a Student's Guide America (Gale)
• Supreme Court Drama Cases that Changed America (Gale)

Recommended sites for images:

• The National Archives
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Time Magazine
• Life Magazine
• Google News Timeline

What follows are suggested searches for your assigned topics:

Lynching: 

Online catalog, Destiny:

Lynching
Hate crime

Databases:

• ABC-CLIO American History
• Annals of American History
• History in Context (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - instructions in left sidebar)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT - instructions in left sidebar)
• Dallas Morning News Historical Archive
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant 
• Roper iPoll (public opinion survey)
  
• SIRS Decades

Alcoholic parents and their affect on their children:  
Al-Anon might be a useful web destination

Online catalog, Destiny: alcohol* AND (parent* OR mother* OR father*) alcohol* AND child* alcoholism

Databases:
• ABC-CLIO Issues
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Opposing Viewpoints in Contest
• ProQuest Platinum 
Circumstantial evidence: what is it and can it be used to convict someone? A useful online resource: Findlaw

Online catalog, Destiny: criminal* AND law* trial AND evidence

Databases:
• ABC-CLIO: Issues
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context
• PowerSearch
• ProQuest Platinum
Ku Klux Klan in the 1930’s. Do they still exist? 

Online catalog, Destiny: "Ku Klux Klan"

Databases:
• ABC-CLIO: American History 
• ABC-CLIO Issues
• History in Context
• Gale Virtual Reference Library 
• Opposing Viewpoints
• PowerSearch
• ProQuest Platinum
• Roper iPoll
Death penalty: 1930’s

Search Destiny, the online catalog: "death penalty"

Databases:
• Dallas Morining News Historical Newspapers
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• History in Context
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Roper iPoll
Abuse victims: How does that change their lives 

Search Destiny, the online catalog for "Child Abuse" OR "emotional abuse" OR "Domestic violence"

Databases:
• Dallas Morning News Historical Newspapers
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• History in Context
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Roper iPoll
• SIRS decades 
Interracial relationships in the 1930’s. Were they ever outlawed in this country? Useful website NPR: Loving Decision: 40 Years of Legal Interracial Unions Search Destiny, the online catalog: interracial OR miscegen*

  Databases:
• Dallas Morning News Historical Newspapers
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• History in Context
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Roper iPoll
• SIRS decades
Jim Crow and the justice system. Maybe Scottsboro boys Useful website: http://www.jimcrowhistory.org  

Search Destiny, the online catalog for: "Jim Crow" OR "separate but equal"

Databases:
• ABC-CLIO: American History
• Dallas Morning News Historical Newspapers
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• History in Context
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Roper iPoll
• SIRS decades
Harper Lee: Her relationship with her father Search Destiny, the online catalog for "Harper Lee" AND literature

Databases:
• Biography in Context
• Gale Literature in Context
• ProQuest Platinum
Adolf Hitler’s reasons for targeting the Jewish people   

Search Destiny, the card catalog for "Hitler OR Nazi*" AND Jews
Databases:
• ABC-CLIO: World at War
• Biography in Context
• History in Context
• Roper iPoll

Trade Simulation

World Empires & TradeBefore the European Renaissance 

We have three eBook providers, and that is only relevant for you because you will access them differently. 

• You can read Follett eBooks in Destiny, the online catalog. Only one person can read a Follett book at a time (that will change in December). The reader (top right of screen - Read Online) depends on Flash, which makes them hard to read on an iPad/iPhone, but there is a tiny oval button at bottom of the screen that allows you to Read eBook without Flash. Be sure to click to a page, as the book cover will make it look like it isn't working. You will need our school's password (see p 41 of your planner).
• We have about 550 ABC-CLIO eBooks. You can locate them two ways: individually, through Destiny, and also through the ABC-CLIO eBook collection. You need to log on to ABC-CLIO to access these. (database key is on database page or you can log in to Google Apps (first.last@ncps-k12.org) and retrieve it from the image on left sidebar here in @THE ANNEX.
• Gale eBooks are housed in the Gale Virtual Reference Library, but you can also access individual eBooks through Destiny. The Gale password is the same here as it is for Follett eBooks. There are iPad, iPhone, and Droid Apps for all our Gale products that simplify the log-in process, and searching as you can search all eBooks and databases all at once.

The history of China (Follett)

The history of Korea (Follett)

A brief history of Korea (Follett)

A history of India (Follett)    

The history of Iran

Iran

A brief history of Iraq

A brief history of Israel

A brief history of Afghanistan

Early civilizations in the Americas reference library (Gale)

The history of Thailand

The history of Cambodia

The history of Indonesia

The history of Egypt

 The history of Ghana

The history of South Africa

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;

Medieval folklore an encyclopedia of myths, legends, tales, beliefs, and customs 

Medieval weapons an illustrated history of their impact

Milestones in archaeology a chronological encyclopedia

 Databases:
Remember to check page 41 of your NCHS planner for the user name and password information.


ABC-CLIO - Daily Life Throughout History
ABC-CLIO - World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
History in Context (THERE's AN APP 4 THAT - see left sidebar)

Church and State

We have eBooks you can access from home:
You will need to use the ABC-CLIO log on to access the eBooks.
There's an app for the Gale eBooks (There's an app 4 that - see left sidebar)

ABC-CLIO:
Abortion in the United States a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
American religions an illustrated history(ABC-CLIO)
American Indian Religious Traditions an Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO)
Cults: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO)
Cults in America (ABC-CLIO)
Encyclopedia of Native American Healing (ABC-CLIO)
Encyclopedia of Native American shamanism sacred ceremonies of North America (ABC-CLIO)
Mainline Christians and U.S. public policy a reference handbook(ABC-CLIO)
Religion and the law in America an encyclopedia of personal belief and public policy (ABC-CLIO)
Religion and politics a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
Religion in the schools a reference handbook (ABC-CLIO)
Religion on trial a handbook with cases, laws, and documents (ABC-CLIO)
Religious freedom rights and liberties under the law (ABC-CLIO)
Treaties with American Indians an Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty (ABC-CLIO)

Gale (There's an app 4 that - see left sidebar):

Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America Encyclopedia of Aging (Gale)

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Gale)

Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Gale)

Encyclopedia of Religion (Gale)

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Gale)
Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America  (Gale)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Gale)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices (Gale)

Other eBooks:

Religion and American cultures an encyclopedia of traditions, diversity, and popular expressions

Google Scholar:

Need a court case? You can review'em all in Google Scholar! Choolse your search terms, the topic, or the involved parties and they wil turn up. Be sure to use the Select specific courts to search link!

Destiny, the online catalog

Once you've decided on a research question and thesis, you can start looking for books with a narrower focus than the reference eBooks

Databases: 

remember to use the generic log on info on page 41 of your NCHS planner to access page. Do not enter your personal information.

Reference:

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• ABC-CLIO
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (There's an App 4 That - see left sidebar)

Historical:

• History in Context  (There's an App 4 That - see left sidebar)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers (from 1850)
• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant (from 1760)

Current context:

• ProQuest Platinum (current news)
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context (for more "controversial" belief systems or court cases)

Global Perspective:

• Global Issues in Context 
• Global NewsBank

Questions? Check our YouTube channel 

Check your bibliography using the online bibliography evaluation form! 

Church and state forum

Cold War Scrapbook

Link to Ms. Goldhawk's Cold War scrapbook website
Great film: Why we fight (we have it)

Useful reference eBooks
ABC-CLIO: View in the ABC-CLIO eReader in browser (you will need to sign in)
Gale: There's an app for that (iPad and iPhone/Droid)


ABC-CLIO:

Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO)
Cold War a Student Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO)

Civil wars of the world major conflicts since World War II (ABC-CLIO)
Cold War a student encyclopedia
Conflict in Korea an encyclopedia
Cuba a global studies handbook
Destroyers an illustrated history of their impact
Encyclopedia of the Cold War a political, social, and military history
Encyclopedia of the Korean War a political, social, and military history
Espionage a reference handbook
Hate crimes a reference handbook

Social history of the United States
The Reagan era from the Iran crisis to Kosovo
U.S. national security a reference handbook

Wars of the Americas a chronology of armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the present

Gale:


Americans at War (Gale)
American Decades (Gale)

American decades primary (Gale)
Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms pop culture of20th-century (Gale)
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War (Gale)
Korean War reference library (Gale)
Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America (Gale)
UXL American Decades (Gale)

Online catalog.
Keep your searches simple.

Examples follow:

• Stalin
• Churchill
• Truman
• "Cuban Missile Crisis"
• Castro
• "John F. Kennedy"
• Kissinger
• "Lyndon Baines Johnson"
• "Richard M. Nixon"
• “Dwight D. Eisenhower"
• "Jimmy Carter"
• Yalta
• “Red Scare”
• “McCarthy, Joseph, 1098-1957”
• Communis* AND China
• Cuba* AND revolution
• “Iran-Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981”
• Iran AND Revolution
• Poland – History
• Iran AND Contra
• Tiananmen Square – China
• “Yalta Conference – (1945)”
• Mao, Zedon, 1893-1976 OR “Mao Tse-tung, 1893-1976”
• Afghanistan AND Russia
• Kruschev

Presidential encyclopedias are good; these are in reference (324)

We have an Encyclopedia of the Cold War - very useful (940.855) in print and in eBook (check out There's an app 4 that in the left sidebar)

Here is a bibliography of some choice books for you.

Databases:

Remember user name and password to access the page on on page 41 of your planner! Don't eneter your personal information.



History & biography databases:

• ABC-CLIO - Word History: The Modern Era
• ABC-CLIO - Word History: The United States at War
• ABC-CLIO - Word History: American History
• History in Context (check out THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT in the left sidebar)
• Biography in context (check out THERE'S AN APP 4 THAT in the left sidebar)
• SIRS Decades (United States history, by decade - all primary sources)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Useful Websites:
Google Scholar
The National Archives

The United Nations

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Uncle Sam - U.S. Government Google Search
Time Magazine
Life Magazine
Google News TImeline

When using websites, be mindful of the CRAAP test!

COLD WAR FORUM

Link to New Canaan (town) Library forum post!