World War I

IB History of the Americas - America and World War I
Research Question, Sources, and OPC-VL

Sources: You'll need to choose the best two sources available to you. Sources that would help you to answer your question, if you were writing an essay. One needs to be a book.

Relevant Databases: Using the Databases and eBooks from Home?
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World History the Modern Era Database - A history database that features shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written and published by ABC-Clio. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources. A good place to start to understand your topic. Browse through the Section The World at War for many ideas for developing your research question. For your OPCVLs though, you'll need a source with more detail.

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. Check out the World War 1 Overview and featured sources.Jstor

JStor Academic Journals - Access college+ level journal articles and books. There are a lot of book reviews in here as well, so don't be confused. An relevant example article is The Role of the Zimmermann Telegram in Spurring America's Entry into the First World War from the journal American Intelligence.

Books: See the example books pulled for you - World War I and America's Foreign Policy.
Also search the Follett catalog (Access from Clever) for additional titles.

World War I Reference Library eBook - Presents full or excerpted primary source materials, including diaries, speeches, letters, journals and memoirs, related to the period.

Digital Books in KCLS - Go to KCLS.org/Students and click on Middle and High School. Scroll down to eBooks and Downloadable Audiobooks. In the upper left click on Back to Main Collection and then search for a title. You can borrow them or place a hold.

Go to OpenLibrary.org, a division of "The Internet Archive" for access to digitized books. You can create a free account and check out online books for two weeks. Pull-down on the search field to be more specific about the fields in which to search for your terms.

HathiTrust Digital Library is another location for digitized books. Take a look!

Free, Academic/Scholarly Websites:

World War 1 Resources from the Library of Congress - Get your Primary Sources here! Disregard the line "This site is designed for elementary and middle school students." I disagree!!

Primary Sources and subtopics of WWI by the National Archives - Scroll down for some amazing collections, divided by sub-categories of WWI. "As the largest repository of American World War I records, the National Archives invites you to browse the wealth of records and information documenting the U.S. experience in this conflict, including photographs, documents, audiovisual recordings, educational resources, articles, blog posts, lectures, and events."

African American Experience and WWI - Again, provided by the National Archives.

Woodrow Wilson's Presidential Library - Browse and search primary sources from his administration. The link here is set up to search with the tag World War I. Another section of the library is dedicated to Teaching Resources and is a bit more straightforward to navigate.

Citations:

There is a new main interface to Noodletools as of last year. Here is a one-minute quick video overview, including how to submit your project to a drop box.

** New for 2021! IHS Library Screencast: How to Share your NT with the Library

**Once you share your works cited, McC always see your "live" version. She'll make comments on them to help you create a correct citation for your OPCVL. Inbox Name: "Raines Per. ___ OPCVL"

Remember, databases will create correct citations for you and books can quick import with the ISBN number.