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1 Mrs. Rentschler/Mrs. Despines Revised for Searching for Primary Documents Print DESTINY: USC High School Library s Online Book Catalog Before you go onto DESTINY make a list of search terms to use. Think of your topic and the different ways it could be indexed- - - think KEYWORDS! Or, just do a search for PRIMARY SOURCES and see what comes up. How to Use DESTINY: The USC High School Library Book Catalog Accessible from the Web anywhere! From STUDENT LINKS click DESTINY. Type in your search and click onto the appropriate icon (KEYWORD, TITLE, AUTHOR, SUBJECT, ETC.). On the Results page, you will see what titles are available, where they are located, and if they are currently on the library shelves. You can get additional information when you click onto each title or the DETAILS button. **************************** American Decades Primary Sources (REF AME) is a wonderful series located in the Ready Reference section of the library. Primary sources from ! There are other books available in the Reference Section. Ask about primary sources for World War 1, Korean War, Roaring 20s, Cold War, Civil War, Industrial Revolution, Colonial America, Great Depression, Reconstruction and Defining Documents in American History resources (which is available on STUDENT LINKS under Salem Press Online database) Please take note: reference books are not available to check out of the library. Copies can be made. Ask a librarian for help. **************************** Databases and Web Sites Before you go online to do a search on a database or the Internet, make a list of search terms to use. Think of your topic and the different ways it could be indexed- - - think KEYWORDS! Choosing Keywords to Search on Google and Most Other Search Engines For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips in mind: Try the obvious first. If you're looking for information on Picasso, enter "Picasso" rather than "painters". Use words likely to appear on a site with the information you want. "Luxury hotel dubuque" gets better results than "really nice places to spend the night in Dubuque". Make keywords as specific as possible. "Antique lead soldiers" gets more relevant results than "old metal toys". To do an effective search, put phrases in quotes (i.e. primary documents ) 1

2 Try this search: American revolution primary documents When searching online, it s one time in your life when you usually don t have to worry about capitalization. Take time to review the information at the end of this document about evaluating web sites to make sure that you are getting relevant, credible information! There are many bogus web sites out there! BEWARE! DATABASES History Reference Center From STUDENT LINKS:click History Reference Center Keyword search Primary Documents: Do an ADVANCED SEARCH and choose primary source document under the PUBLICATION TYPE area. JSTOR From STUDENT LINKS: Click JSTOR Username: uschs Password: panther JSTOR Primary documents At the search window, click Advanced Search. Scroll down to Narrow Search and click the box by pamphlets, which is how JSTOR labels primary documents. Student Resources in Context From STUDENT LINKS: Click Student Resources in Context Password: panther Choose ADVANCED SEARCH. Points of View From STUDENT LINKS: Click Points of View. Primary Documents: Do an ADVANCED SEARCH and choose primary documents under the PUBLICATION TYPE area. Britannica Online School Edition From STUDENT LINKS:click Encyclopedia Britannica Primary Documents: On the results page, left side- bar, click the PRIMARY SOURCES/eBOOKS link. Salem Press Collection From STUDENT LINKS: Click Salem Press Collection 2

3 Under the HISTORY heading, chose the appropriate Defining Documents in American History collection. Under each article, scroll down to the HISTORICAL DOCUMENT- - - THIS IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE. POWER Library Check with individual databases for primary document availability. Use the advanced search feature for each database. Websites Evaluate those web sites! Make sure that the sites are credible and relevant for our topic. Evaluate each site using the points below: Are the links relevant and appropriate? Locate the author/producer of the site. Is her/his name listed on the page? What is the author s authority in the subject matter presented in the website? Look in the About This Site link on the page, if applicable. Is there a way to contact the author on the page (e- mail, address, phone number)? Is the site linked to a government, educational, or industrial establishment? If so, this is a good sign. J Does the site list sources used in the information presented? If so, great! Is the purpose of the site obvious? To the best of your knowledge, does the site use correct spelling and grammar? Does the site have a copyright and/or last revision date? (Sometimes this is located at the bottom of the page.) Do the links on the page work? Beware of excessive, irrelevant advertisements on the page. Search these websites for primary sources: The National Archives Library of Congress Internet Public Library- - - Many links to primary source repositories; the IPL is no longer updated but the links probably are Chronicling America Library of Congress Search America's historic newspaper pages from or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Internet Archive Historical newspaper site best- free- us- online- historical- newspaper- research- sites#.vstctrj0b5j 3

4 Europeana untold stories & official histories of WW1 Explore stories, films and historical material about the First World War and contribute your own family history. Europeana mixes resources from libraries and archives across the globe with memories and memorabilia from families throughout Europe. Colonial North American Project at Harvard University When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th and 18th century North America. Scattered through twelve repositories, these documents reveal a great deal about topics such as social life, education, trade, finance, politics, revolution, war, women, Native American life, slavery, science, medicine, and religion. In addition to reflecting the origins of the United States, the digitized materials also document aspects of life and work in Great Britain, France, Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The Essays on this website are the work of a Summer 2015 Arcadia Fellow, Alicia DeMaio, who was one of the first researchers to connect thematically related material from among the images digitized to date. New York Public Library Digital Collections This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. The Women's LSE Take a journey through the personal, political and economic struggles that have symbolised women's battle for equality over the past 500 years, through a representative selection of the broad range of materials in LSE Library and The Women's LSE. A chronological presentation of more than 300 items from the 16th Century to the present day Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University Digital Library Library.aspx The mission of the Theodore Roosevelt Center is to gather together and digitize copies of all Roosevelt- related items, to make his legacy more readily accessible to scholars and schoolchildren, enthusiasts and interested citizens. Items in the digital library include correspondence to and from Roosevelt, diary entries, notes, political cartoons, scrapbooks, newspaper columns and magazine articles by and about Roosevelt, speeches, and photographs. Users can also view film clips and listen to audio recordings. The King Center Digital Archive There are nearly a million documents associated with the life of Martin Luther King Jr. These pages will present a more dynamic view than is often seen of Dr. King s life and times. The documents reveal the scholar, the father, and the pastor. Through these papers we see the United States of America at one of its most vulnerable, most honest and perhaps most human moments in history. There are letters bearing the official marks of royalty and the equally regal compositions of children. You will see speeches, telegrams, scribbled notes, patient admonitions and urgent pleas. This spotlight shows you a glimpse of the remarkable history within this collection. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America March 11,

5 Civil War Primary Sources- - - KEEP SCROLLING DOWN LOTS of great links!!! Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid- 1800s to the 1970s. The collection covers important periods in Mexican- American history, from the Mexican Revolution to the Bracero Program to the Chicano Movement. There are about 1,900,000 Latino and Hispanic population in Arizona and more than 50 million in the United States. Having this collection available to the public through digitization of these materials, will raise awareness to issues that advance the image and identity of Latinos in American politics and media and their contributions to the United States. 71 Digital Portals to State History Library of Congress digital- portals- to- state- history/ 100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents terrific- sites- to- find- primary- source- history- documents/ WOW!!!! Great links to MANY sources! FRANKLIN FDR Library Digital Collection FRANKLIN is a virtual research room and digital repository that provides free and open access to the digitized collections of the Roosevelt Library to everyone, anywhere in the world. Whether you are a lover of history, a student working on a school project, or a scholar, FRANKLIN allows you to keyword search for archival documents and photographs and to search, browse, and view whole files, just as you could if you came to the Library s research room in- person. Now available online are some of the most important documents of the twentieth century primary source documentation of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt s experiences leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II. French Revolution Digital Archive A collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France The National Archives: Native North Americans north- americans/ The Emergence of Advertising in America: (EAA) The Emergence of Advertising in America: (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture. Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. 5

6 Google Cultural Institute LOTS OF COLLECTIONS AND LINKS! Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces. Library of Congress: How to Locate Free Case Law on the Internet to- locate- free- case- law- on- the- internet/ Spartacus Educational educational.com/ The Spartacus Educational website provides a series of free history encyclopedias. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The Avalon Project from Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. American Library Association Reference & User Services Association Includes links to many primary source repositories. The Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. Penn State University Library s Digital Collections POWER Library also has the PA photos and documents that has many links to Pennsylvania specific primary sources. You may have to log into POWER Library from home. Then click PA photos and documents. The American Presidency Project 111,400 documents relating to the office of the presidency...lots of primary sources and election data post Library of Congress: Native American Lib Guide americans/set.html If you find some great primary source websites out there, please the web address(es) to Mrs. Despines or Mrs. Rentschler and they will add them to this list to share with others. at jdespines@uscsd.k12.pa.us or drentschler@uscsd.k12.pa.us 6

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