Revolutionary Women!
https://go.nsd.org/ihsrevolutionarywomen
Recommended Resources for Your Two Sources:
Using the Databases and eBooks from Home? View the Digital Resources Logins and Passwords page. You'll need to sign in with your @apps to view.
Note: Searching by name can retrieve results in languages other than English. If you're struggling to find sources in English, we can use translators to help read these language of origin sources. Also, putting the name in quotes: "Rafaela de Herrera y Torreynosa" may help to retrieve the whole, correct name and not just parts of it. Google Advanced allows you to search for your subject's name "as a phrase" and to retrieve articles only in English. See image at bottom for an example.
Databases
World History by ABC-Clio Database - A history database featuring shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written by ABC-Clio staff. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources. They include biographies on about half of the listed revolutionary women, as examples: Nakayama Miki and Juana Azurduy de Padilla.
World History in Context Database - A comprehensive database that gathers published information from reference books, magazines and news publications, academic journals and includes primary sources like videos, images, and audio. Typically, the articles are a bit longer than in World History above. Only a handful of these women are represented in this database. Some include biographies of their husbands, but not them! Helpful article examples include: Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and Catherine the Great. Scroll down to see how this database provides resources below the article - primary sources as well as other items you may want.
Academic OneFile from KCLS - Another comprehensive database from King County Library that includes articles from academic journals and books. Examples include this author interview about Begum Hazrat Mahal and a book review containing details about Macaela Bastidas. Access by going to KCLS.org/students and login with your 417+student number and the last four digits of your student number. To get additional databases, like Newspaper archives for example, click on Databases on the left navigation after you've signed in.
eBooks - Our digital reference books will work for you! Our Gale eBook collection has history books that do include nice biographies and backgrounds of most of your revolutionary women. Three great examples are a long biography on Hazrat Mahal, a number of articles on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and an in-depth article on Gabriela Silang's homeland and culture titled "Ilocanos".
Websites - Try searching for academic sites by adding site:.edu to your search terms.
example: Type into a search: Micaela Bastidas site:.edu
One of your sources can be Wikipedia (but then you will need a 3rd source). Wikipedia is a great place to start. You can use it to get a general idea of your revolutionary woman, collect search terms, and be sure to look at the sources at the bottom of the article. You can oftentimes find those sources they used to write the Wikipedia entry for your own research.
If your person is hard to find in a .edu search, do an open Google search but be sure to select the best, most reliable sources!
When possible look for encyclopedias, and any education sources especially...
Try to avoid blogs, like WordPress, if you can.
Quality Example: This biography of Olympe de Gouges on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy from the Univ. of Texas is an example of a well-sourced, reputable website.
**Remember you have to be able to answer: What makes the author an authority on this topic?
Print Books - We do have some print books with many of your revolutionary women in them. We are happy to help search the catalog (and search within the actual books themselves because every entry in the book's index won't show up in the catalog) and provide books. Click the Follett tile in Clever, or go to the Library page and use the yellow "Library Catalog" button.
Citations
Databases will create correct citations for you, that you can move or copy/paste into NT. You will fill in the fields for free Websites. Books, you can add citation by searching for the ISBN number when adding Print/In-Hand source to NT. Two main understandings for citing your sources: WHAT is it and HOW did YOU access it?
There is a new 2021 main interface to Noodletools this year. Here is a one-minute quick video overview from NT, including how to submit your project to a drop box.
** New for 2021! Screencast: How to Share your NT with the Library
:) More Sharing Directions: Share your WCs with the Library within the Noodletools App. Click in the blank column below "Sharing" when viewing your list of projects. Click Share with a Teacher's Inbox and then the "+Share." Start typing in your teacher's name, select the correct inbox and click "Done."
**Once you share your works cited, the Library will always see your "live" version. They'll make comments on them and you'll have a few days to fix anything before grading.
