Subscription Databases
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Gale PowerSearch
<b>Explore Gale through 'Search' bar. <br />
-- Choose 'Content type' (books, journals, etc), <br />
-- limit to 'Full Text Documents', and <br />
-- narrow by 'Subject'. <br />
-- Continue to narrow using 'Subjects', 'Document Type', 'Search Within Results', etc.</b>
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Gale Powersearch - Filters, Tips, & Tricks
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<b>Instructions to use filters and "search within" options to refine and to limit suggested resources.</b>
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ABC-CLIO Databases
World History: The Modern Era; Daily Life in History; World Geography --- <b>Explore ABC-CLIO Modern Era by 'Time Period' and by 'Topic' for primary documents, topical articles, and analysis</b>. Site Search and Advanced Search functions are also available.
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JSTOR
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<b>Sign in with Google to read 100 free articles per month</b> from this revered collegiate / academic / professional database. <b>Use the "Search within" tool to refine results.</b>
Primary Source Documents
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
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A directory and database compiled to support learning and research for courses in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures, modern European, American, and Latin American history. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
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Marxists Internet Archive
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A non-profit online encyclopedia maintained and administered by a steering committee of volunteers. The site hosts a multilingual library of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers and writers of related and even a few unrelated ideologies.
Online / Digital Textbooks
Print and Digitized Books
Read instructions to find FREE Google Books
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List of Print Books on Library Carts
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Students may use <b>cell phones to photograph content</b> as needed, can get adult assistance to <b>make copies on the Toshiba copier</b> in library, or can <b>check books out</b> with teacher permission
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Google Books
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Source for copyright free book resources. <b>(Enter search term. On results page, choose "Tools". Select "Advanced Search". Part way down the page, after the 'Search' prompt, choose, "Full View Only".)</b>
Selected additional resources
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McGary recommended web resources (Topic group # 1)
<p>Web resources suggested by Mrs. McGary on the following topics: <br />
-- <b>Peter the Great, <br />
-- Catherine the Great, <br />
-- French Revolution, <br />
-- Napoleon, <br />
-- Haitian Revolution</b></p>
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McGary Recommended Web Resources (Topic Group # 2)
<p>Web resources suggested by Mrs. McGary on the following topics: <br />
<b>-- Industrial Revolution (Great Britain), <br />
-- Industrial Revolution Trade Unions, <br />
-- Industrial revolution British Legislation<br />
-- Mary Wollstonecraft, <br />
-- William Wilberforce, <br />
-- Simon Bolivar</b></p>
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McGary Recommended Web Resources (Topic Group # 3)
<p>Web resources suggested by Mrs. McGary on the following topics: <br />
<b>-- Unification of Italy, <br />
-- Communist Manifesto, <br />
-- Unification of Germany, <br />
-- Ottoman Empire, <br />
-- India & Pakistan</b></p>
Web Search
Research Organizer & Citation Tools
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NoodleTools - Works Cited & Notecard tools
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Online tool to track your sources, take notes, create outlines, and format Works Cited. <b>Sign in using Google (G)</b>
Students need to follow instructions below to register.
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MLA Style Guide - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
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These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation and format style. This section contains resources on in-text citations and Works Cited pages, as well as MLA sample papers.
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NoodleTools, Citations, and Formatting
Sharing NoodleTools with teachers or peers, page headers, in-text citations, sample MLA Style research paper, and other formatting supports.