Librarians: Mrs. Rentschler/Mrs. Despines Revised for 2017-18

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DESTINY: USC High School Library’s Online Book Catalog & MackinVia eBooks 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 and synonyms! 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 when you click onto each title or the DETAILS button. • If you get a result that has an OPEN button after it, this is an eBook. Click OPEN and follow the directions to access. You will have to log into MackinVia with your school credentials. **************************** American Decades Primary Sources (REF 973.91 AME) is a wonderful series located in the Ready Reference section of the library. Primary sources from 1900-2009! 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 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 and synonyms! 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.” • Use the minus/hyphen sign to eliminate results containing certain words (e.g. jaguar –car) 1

To do an effective search, put phrases in quotes (i.e. “primary documents”) 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 about evaluating web sites to make sure that you are getting relevant, credible information! There are many bogus web sites out there! BEWARE!

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History Reference Center From STUDENT LINKS: click “History Reference Center” If needed, use uschs and panther to login. Primary Documents: Do an ADVANCED SEARCH and choose “ document” under PUBLICATION TYPE.

JSTOR From STUDENT LINKS: Click “JSTOR” Username: uschs Password: panther JSTOR Primary documents – At the search window, click “Advanced Search.” Scroll down to “Narrow by” and click the box by ‘pamphlets,” which is how JSTOR labels primary documents.

Salem Press Collection From STUDENT LINKS: Click “Salem Press Collection” If needed, use uschs and panther to login. Under the HISTORY heading, chose the appropriate “Defining Documents in American History” collection. In each article, scroll down to the HISTORICAL DOCUMENT---THIS IS THE PRIMARY SOURCE.

Student Resources in Context From STUDENT LINKS: Click “Student Resources in Context” Password: panther Primary Documents: Do an ADVANCED SEARCH and choose primary source under the DOCUMENT TYPE area. There may be other categories listed that would count for primary sources. Ask your teacher to approve.

Points of View From STUDENT LINKS: Click “Points of View” If needed, use uschs and panther to login. Primary Documents: Do an ADVANCED SEARCH and choose primary documents under the PUBLICATION TYPE area.

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Britannica Online School Edition From STUDENT LINKS: click “Encyclopedia Britannica” If needed, use uschs and panther to login. Primary Documents: On the results page, left side-bar, click the PRIMARY SOURCES/eBOOKS link.

POWER Library Databases 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. ☺ • 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.

The National www.archives.gov

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/

Internet Public Library---Many links to primary source repositories; the IPL is no longer updated but the links probably are http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Finding?Key=primary+sources&collection=gen

PA Digital http://padigital.org is the Pennsylvania service hub for the Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la). It brings together digital collections of cultural heritage and historical materials from libraries, historical societies, museums, and related cultural heritage institutions of all sizes from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and makes them globally discoverable in the DPLA portal.

Chronicling America Library of Congress http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ “Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.”

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Internet https://archive.org/

Historical newspaper site http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/the-10-best-free-us-online- historical-newspaper-research-sites#.VstCTRj0b5J

Google News Archive https://news.google.com/newspapers

The 10 Best Free U.S. Online Historical Newspaper Research Sites http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/the-10-best-free-us-online-historical-newspaper-research- sites#.WRSbtI61u8V

Google Cultural Institute LOTS OF COLLECTIONS AND LINKS! https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home “Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces.”

Europeana 1914-1918 – untold stories & official of WW1 http://europeana1914-1918.eu/en “Explore stories, films and historical material about the First World War and contribute your own family history. Europeana 1914-1918 mixes resources from libraries and archives across the globe with memories and memorabilia from families throughout Europe.”

Colonial North American Project at Harvard University http://colonialnorthamerican.library.harvard.edu/ “When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known archival and 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 http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ “This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, , streaming video, and more.” https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/05/share-public-domain-collections

The Women's Library @ LSE http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/thewomenslibrary “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 Library @ LSE. A chronological presentation of more than 300 items from the 16th Century to the present day…”

Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University Digital Library http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-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.” 4

Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites http://cybraryman.com/primary.html

Office of the Historian US Government https://history.state.gov/

Penn State University Library’s Digital Collections https://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital.html Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library “…provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations.” http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/

The King Center Digital Archive http://www.thekingcenter.org/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, 1861 http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/csconstitution.html

Civil War Primary Sources---KEEP SCROLLING DOWN—LOTS of great links!!! https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press http://www.library.arizona.edu/contentdm/mmap/about.html “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 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/09/71-digital-portals-to-state-history/

100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2009/100-terrific-sites-to-find-primary-source-history- documents/ WOW!!!! Great links to MANY sources!

6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents https://www.edutopia.org/blog/online-resources-primary-source-documents-monica-burns

French Revolution Digital Archive: A collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France http://frda.stanford.edu/

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/ Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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FRANKLIN FDR Library Digital Collection http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/ “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.”

Library of Congress: How to Locate Free Case Law on the Internet http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/02/how-to-locate-free-case-law-on-the-internet/

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/jerome-robbins-dance-division “…is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. Chronicling the art of dance in all its manifestations—ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk—the division is much more than a library in the usual sense of the word.”

Library of Congress: Native American Lib Guide http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/native-americans/set.html

The National Archives: Native North Americans http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/native-north-americans/

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) https://repository.duke.edu/dc/eaa “The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (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.”

Spartacus Educational http://spartacus-educational.com/ “The Spartacus Educational website provides a series of free history encyclopedias. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources.”

Civil War in the American South http://american-south.org/?Welcome&Welcome

The Avalon Project from Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp “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 http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/finding Includes links to many primary source repositories.

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The Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la/ “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.”

POWER Library also has the “PA photos and documents” that has many links to Pennsylvania specific primary sources. http://www.powerlibrary.org/collections/#.VstXuRj0b5I You may have to log into POWER Library from home. Then click “PA photos and documents.”

The American Presidency Project www.presidency.ucsb.edu 111,400 documents relating to the office of the presidency...lots of primary sources and election data post-1789

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - American Marketplace Collection http://digitalcollections.powerlibrary.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/pcalo-amc American Marketplace chronicles the development of the industrial expansion of the United States following the Civil War, and the parallel emergence of the consumer products reflecting the prosperity that came with 19th and 20th Century manufacturing. The 669 titles reflect many well-known companies in industries such as agriculture,shipping, the railroads, and the early automotive and aviation trades. Along with the manufacturer’s catalogs are period consumer products as illustrated in mail-order, retail, and merchandise catalogs.

U.S. Office of the Historian https://history.state.gov/

The Mountain West Digital Library http://mwdl.org/portals/pioneers.php

The Gilder Lehrman Collection https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections The Gilder Lehrman Collection is a unique archive of primary sources in American history. Owned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and located at the New-York Historical Society, the Collection includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and of the United States.

The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/ “…is a digital library of primary sources in American from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.”

British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800.

If you find some great primary source websites out there, please email the web address(es) to Mrs. Despines or Mrs. Rentschler and they will add them to this list to share with others. Email at [email protected] or [email protected] 7