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A Virtual Collection of Resources

Celebrating Womens History Month

Read a good biography lately? These are available @ your library!
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame 
The Library of Congress Women's History Month 
National Women’s History Project 

 

Writing HELP!

Google Searching?

Still looking for Literature Criticism?

Try Google Scholar Google Scholar

Remember: Use QUOTES around "The Story" title AND the "Author's Name"

Pay attention to links which are Books & Citations as you will have to find those books in a library.

Google Web Search

Running a Google Search?

Remember:   1. "Quotes can make the difference" in your results
                        2. Request a specific Domain: "Search term or phrase" site:gov or site:edu or site:org
                        3. Choose Advanced Search to narrow time, place, reading level, terms appearing in text

DATABASES & RESOURCES FOR HISTORY RESEARCH

 

From ProQuest: free, open resource for students, educators and others who are researching U.S. Black history. The site features over 2,000 curated primary-source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/

US History

World War I

World War II

Time Line Tools

MY HISRO timeline tool:
Another timeline tool which has great reviews:
  • Supports video, images, audio, & text. 
  • Formatted vertically, like blogs or FB pages. Events appear on both sides of the centerline. 
  • Teachers can create an online HSTRY classroom where you can view all your students' work. Isn't this what you've been looking for all along?  
  • Designed to work laptops, iPads, & Android tablets.
  • Oh the review mentions it's a map creation tool! 
  • Events can be geolocated using Google maps.
  • Free myHistro iPad app!!

Collection of Timeline Tools: http://sqworl.com/vikjsr

 

Timeline JS: http://timeline.knightlab.com

Enter dates, headlines, event descriptions into a a Google Spreadsheet and the graphic is created for you!

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