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

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: B Lacks
ISBN: 9781400052172
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Jane Goodall by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Call Number: B Goodall
ISBN: 9780670062638
Publication Date: 2008-07-03
They Went Whistling by Barbara Holland
Call Number: 920 Hol
ISBN: 9780385720021
Publication Date: 2002-02-05
Notable Women in the Life Sciences by Benjamin F. Shearer; Barbara S. Shearer
Call Number: 920 Not
ISBN: 9780313293023
Publication Date: 1996-06-30
Jackie Joyner-Kersee by Geri Harrington; Jerry Lewis (Introduction by); John Callahan (Foreword by)
Call Number: B Joyner
ISBN: 9780791020852
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Who's Who of 20th Century Women by Jean Martin (Editor); Random House Value Publishing Staff
Call Number: 920 Who
ISBN: 9780517120279
Publication Date: 1995-04-04

Writing HELP!

Noodletools Citation Guide
ACCESS THROUGH THE GOOGLE WAFFLE FROM YOUR LEDYARD GMAIL.

Purdue's Online Writing Lab
Writing Lab has all your answers to writing any kind of paper or project

Thesis Creators
Here is another Thesis Creator! http://www.tommarch.com/electraguide

Google Searching?

Still looking for Literature Criticism?

Try 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 Simple 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

ABC CLIO This link opens in a new window Username: LHS2
GALE EBOOKS This link opens in a new window
Reference ebooks ALL SUBJECTS!!
Cavendish Digital E Books This link opens in a new window
Financial Literacy - World War I - World War II
Username: ledyard
Salem Press This link opens in a new window
History & Science collection of Ebooks.
Library card user name is the one you know.

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/

Britannica Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Username: lhslibrary

Connecticut Digital Literacy Project
Digitized historically significant Connecticut newspapers.

US History

American Historical Association
American Revolution
Annenberg Classroom for CIVICS
Black History
Gallup Site
The History Channel
Library of Congress
NAACP
National History Day
National Museum American History (Smithsonian)
NPR (National Public Radio)
Organization of American History
PBS The American Experience
Smithsonian Institute
US History
US History Chronological Order
Zinn's Education History Project
Chronicling America News Map
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Use the US Map to drill down by state for news from 1940's to today

USA.gov

Explore the entire world of government resources
NOAA Climate

US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration portal into all things climate.
Education Resources Information Center

Centralized interface for searching more than 1.3 million citations, back to 1966.
World Wise Schools

Brings the Peace Corps experience home to American classrooms.
US Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets

Published by US State Department, booklets provide basic facts on a country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, & its relations with other countries..

U.S. Term Limits

Making of America
Long term effort to create a digital collection of primary documents related to American History. University of Michigan Library & Cornell University Library.
US News Map

Digital Public Library Presidential Libraries

Library of Congress American Memory Project
Library of Congress America's Story
Library of Congress
LOC Discovery Sets
The new Library of Congress Student Discovery Sets bring together historical artifacts and one-of-a-kind documents on a wide range of topics, from history to science to literature. Interactive tools let students zoom in, draw to highlight details, and conduct open-ended primary source analysis. Full teaching resources are available for each set.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
iCivics Guides
Uncle Sam's Congress for Kids
The Harlan Institute

A Supreme Court fantasy game

World War I

Cavendish Digital E Books This link opens in a new window
Financial Literacy - World War I - World War II
Username: ledyard

WW I in CT

World War II

Cavendish Digital E Books This link opens in a new window
Financial Literacy - World War I - World War II
Username: ledyard

National Museum Air Force
Dayton Ohio
The Tank Museum
World's largest collection of historic tanks. Dorset United Kingdom
National WWII Museum
New Orleans
Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum
Kent United Kingdom
Battleship Missouri Memorial
Honolulu Hawaii
Pacific Aviation Museum
Honolulu Hawaii
WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Honolulu Hawaii
BBC History
Marxists Site
International Spy Museum
Washington DC
Includes online exhibits
National Cryptologic Museum
Annapolis Junction MD
National Women's History Museum
Online exhibits
Federal Bureau of Investigation
US History The Manhattan Project
Rosenberg Trial
Harry S. Truman White House
Fort Hancock, Gateway National Recreation Area
Highlands, NJ
Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park
Richmond, CA
Authentic History
Not Ad Free
Women come to the front. Library of Congress
Victory Gardens
Knitting for Victory History Link.org

Time Line Tools

MY HISRO timeline tool:

Another timeline tool which has great reviews:

http://www.myhistro.com/

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!!

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/10/six-multimedia-timeline-creation-tools.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29#.U1Udn_ldUmM

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!