History Day 2024: Turning Points
History Day
Videos: Introduction
National History Day Examples and Rules:
NHD-2024-Theme-Book-FINAL-web-2.pdfNHDRuleBook2021Digital_1.pdfTopic Overview
Britannica- see database page above- select High School
Use this resource to learn background information on your topic
Wikipedia- online encyclopedia, this can be compared with Britannica
ProQuest- Elibrary search term: Research Topic: (enter your topic here)
Examples of Literal Turning Points:
Desegregation of Schools
The Process: (Click down arrow) Your research is only as strong as your sources. Begin your search with some secondary sources to gain an overview of your topic. Then drill down and use primary sources to gain a clearer understanding of your subject, free from the interpretation (and bias) of another. Always challenge yourself to understand who wrote/produced your information? When? For what purpose?
Gale In Context: U.S. History- see databases above- secondary and primary sources
ProQuest- Elibrary
JSTOR- academic journals
UCONN- see database above- Best Bets within the UConn databases below
America: History and Life Best Bet
Summarizes scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada. 1964-current.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Best Bet
Virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. 1475-1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Best Bet
Full-text of over 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Covers history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. 1701-1800.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text Best Bet
Provides selective indexing of historical articles from thousands of journals and books in a wide variety of languages. Coverage includes the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. 1955-current. .
New York Times Historical Best Bet
Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper. 1851-2006.
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Includes articles from North American Indigenous newspapers from the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.
Primary Sources: Digging Deeper
Chronicling America
Digital Public Library of America
Select a topic to discover featured collections and stories, OR search millions of digital records.
Full text of documents relating to the fields of history, law, politics, diplomacy, government and economics from the colonial era to the present
Other Open Resources
American Memory Project
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.Women in America, 1820-1842
Travelogues of European visitors to the United States; focus on women's experiencesYale Indian Papers Project
Exploring 400 years of New England Native American history, community, culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics.
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