Absolute Rulers

Databases: 

• ABC-CLIO American History

• Facts on File History Research Center (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)

• Encyclopedia Britannica

• Gale Biography in Context (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)

• Gale World History in Context (Encyclopedias, essays, news, primary sources)

• JSTOR (scholarly essays)

• Salem Press Biographies 

• Worldbook Encyclopedia

• World Culture and Geography (for history of a particular area)

• Proquest CultureGrams (for history of a particular area)

HINT: Do simple searches for your explorer.

Internet Searching:

• Do a Google search using targeted keywords: i.e. [vasco da gama journal] OR [vasco da gama map]. Check your sources for accuracy and credibility. (Some good sources are colleges/universities - .edu, government archives, Gutenberg project, scholarly articles in PDF form)

• Noodletools allows you to export citiations from databases and build your own citations / works cited / notecards

• Log in with your Google Account

• Help videos here.