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Mr. Johnson's English 3 Research
NON-FICTION
302.23 MAS Mass media
303.48 FRI The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
303.6 MED Media violence
305.9 GAL Gay rights.
305.9 HOM Homosexuality : opposing viewpoints
306.0973 CAR Our endangered values : America's moral crisis
306.76 FON Homophobia : a history
306.0973 CAR Our endangered values : America's moral crisis
309.173 BER An unsettled people; social order and disorder in American history
320.973 DOR Dirty politics: from 1776 to Watergate
320.973 GRA Mass media and American politics
323 SCH In our own best interests
323.4 CIV Civil liberties: opposing viewpoints
323.1 BRA Pillar of fire : America in the King years,1963-65
342.73 FAR Tinker v. Des Moines : student protest.
342.73 POS An affair of state : the investigation, impeachment, and trial of President Clinton
344.73 RAS We the students : Supreme Court decisions for and about students
345.73 PAL The death penalty : an American citizen's guide to understanding federal and state laws
345.73 TUR Ultimate punishment : a lawyer's reflections on dealing with the death penalty
346.7301 JAC Teens on trial : young people who challenged the law-- and changed your life
349.73 GRE Great American court cases
353.6 BEN The American Military : opposing viewpoints
355 SKA Women at war : gender issues of Americans in combat
355 WOR Women in combat : the battle for equality.
356 CLA Blood and sacrifice
364.1 RAJ A Nation grieved; the Kennedy assassination in editorial cartoons
364.6 DEA The Death penalty : opposing viewpoints
364.66 BOS Choosing mercy : a mother of murder victims pleads to end the death penalty
364.66 DEA Death penalty.
364.66 STE The debate about the death penalty.
370.11 MAC Dancing with bigotry : beyond the politics of tolerance
520 FUR The atlas of space exploration
523.2 BRU Solar system voyage
629.4 ANG The dictionary of space technology
629.4 ANG The dictionary of space technology
629.45 BRU Space odyssey : the first forty years of space exploration
629.45 SPA Space shuttle : the first 20 years.
530.0092 CON Tuxedo Park : a Wall Street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of World War II
814 DUB Souls of Black Folk
909.8 WIN The Cold War
909.82 KOR The Cold War
920 BER The American women's almanac : an inspiring and irreverent women's history
920 HIL Vietnam War : biographies.
920 KEN John F. Kennedys : A Family Album
920 OTT Fallout : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard,and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb
921 KEN BUR John Kennedy : A Political Profile
921 KEN MAN The death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963
921 KEN MEM John Fitzgerald Kennedy : Memorial Adddresses in the Congress of the United States and tributes in Eulogy
940.53 AMB American heritage new history of World War II
940.53 DAV Experience of War : the United States in World War II
940.54 ALP The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth.
959.704 HIL Vietnam War : almanac
959.704 HIL Vietnam War : primary sources
959.704 KAI American tragedy : Kennedy, Johnson, and the origins of the Vietnam War
959.704 SUM Vietnam war almanac
959.704 VIE Vietnam War
973 AME American Destiny : An Illustrated History of the United States.
973 HAK Reconstruction and reform
973 HAK All the people
973 HAK War, peace, and all that jazz
973 HAK War, terrible war events, and consequences.
973 HOO The Japanese American family album
973 SOU Documents that shaped the American nation : sourcebook and index..
973 VIC The new nation
973 WE We Americans : celebrating a nation, its people, and its past.
973 ZIN A people's history of the United States :1492-present
973.03 KOH Encyclopedia of American history
973.2 LAN Everyday things in American life.
973.91 USC The 1940s
973.92 196 The 1960s.
973.92 CLI My Life
973.92 GRE The presidential difference : style and character in the Oval Office from FDR to Bill Clinton.
973.921 KAL The 1950's
973.922 SOR Kennedy.
973.924 STE The 1970's
973.929 CLI Living History.
973.929 199 The 1990s
973.929 KLE The natural : the misunderstood presidency of Bill Clinton
973.93 ABE The missile crisis
978.9 RIC Between worlds : the making of an American life.
973.92 CHA The Unfinished Journey : America Since World War II
973.92 MAR Daily life in the United States, 1960-1990 :decades of discord
973.929 DIG` The digital decade - the 90s
REFERENCE
REF 031 ENC Encyclopedic Dictionary of American History
REF 320.9 GOV Government, politics, and protest : essential primary sources.
REF 390 GRE The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life, a tour through history from ancient times to the present.
REF 909 HIS History behind the headlines
REF 909.02 PAR Day by day : the sixties
REF 911.73 ATL Atlas of American history
REF 911.73 FER Atlas of American history
REF 920 COL The Cold War, 1945-1991, archives.
REF 920 ENC Encyclopedia of world biography
REF 959.704 The Greenhaven encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
REF 973 ALB Album of American history
REF 973 ANN The Annals of America
REF 973.91 AME American decades
REF 973.92 ENC Encyclopedia of Cold War politics
REF 973.92 AME American decades
REF 973.92 ENC Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture
REF 973.92 TOR Encyclopedia of cold war politics
FICTION
FIC OBR The things they carried : a work of fiction
AUDIO/VISUAL
KIT 323.097 MIG Mighty times : the legacy of Rosa Parks
KIT 323.097 PLA A Place at the table : struggles for equality in America
KIT 959.704 EVE An evening at Cantigny with Robert Timberg
REF 320.6 SOC Social policy : essential primary sources
SEARCH TERMS
"United States" AND "foreign relations"
"death penalty" AND 1970
"United States" AND isolationism
"John Kennedy" AND assassination
"John Kennedy" AND "Cuban missile crisis"
DATABASES
The American National Biography
A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name.
http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html
CQResearcher
The source for for original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world.
www.cqresearcher.com
EBSCO Ultra Online
Perhaps the best research tool for literary, fine arts, history, social studies information. Be sure to click on Full Text when looking for direct sources and quotes.
http://search.epnet.com
eLibrary
eLibrary - delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
http://www.proquestk12.com
Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online School Edition: The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. To access additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button.
www.school.eb.com
Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 
The History Study Center
History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day
http://www.proquestk12.com/
In the First Person
A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world
www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493
WEBSITES
American Memory - Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The History Channel
The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth.
www.history.com
Library of Congress
An authoritative, general purpose research site.
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Picture History
ind the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history.
http://www.picturehistory.com/
United Nations
Daily UN news, documents and publications, overview information, conference information, photos, and other UN information resources.

www.un.org/

United States Department of Justice
Represents citizens in enforcing the law.
www.usdoj.gov/
SEARCH ENGINES
Ask.com
Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. I
www.ask.com
CITATION AIDS
Easybib
The free automatic bibliography composer.
Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word.
http://www.easybib.com
Works Cited Guidelines (MLA 6th edition)
Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear.
http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html
Research and Documentation Online
Link for documenting sources in research papers.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
The OWL at Purdue:MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

 

 

 

 


 
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