First Contact

First Contact: Research Paragraph - Booker

Assignment

• • Outline

Electronic

Databases

• • U.S. History Collection (Gale)

    • U.S. History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.

  • World History Collection (Gale)

  • More History and Law Databases

Encyclopedias

• • Salem Press Encyclopedia (Password Required)

    • Search

      • Great events from history. The 17th century, 1601-1700

      • Great events from history. The Renaissance & early modern era, 1454-1600

      • Great events from history. The Middle Ages, 477-1453

      • Defining Documents in World History: The 17th Century (1601-1700) 

      • Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century 

      • Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 

      • Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages 

  • Britannica School 

Print

• • Oakridge Catalogue 

    • Non-fiction

      • A people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn 

      • United States history, volume 1 : colonial through reconstruction by Robert Maddox

      • A concise history of the United States by Andrew Sinclair

    • Reference

      • Chronicle of America

      • Dictionary of world biography

      • Salem Press Encyclopedias

        • Great events from history. The 17th century, 1601-1700

        • Great events from history. The Renaissance & early modern era, 1454-1600

        • Great events from history. The Middle Ages, 477-1453

        • Defining Documents in World History: The 17th Century (1601-1700)