Beachwood High School Information Resource Center

BHS English Department

 

 

Researching Life and Times

Pathfinder

 

 

 

STEP 1:

GET ORGANIZED

                               

                Know the years your subject lived. 

               

                Know the requirements of your assignment.

 

STEP 2.

DETERMINE THE RANGE OF MATERIALS AVAILABLE. 

RANK THE SOURCES ACCORDING TO WHERE YOU WILL LOOK FIRST, SECOND, THIRD.

 

Go the BHS IRC database page:      

http://www.beachwood.k12.oh.us/bhslmc/datah/index.html

 

POLITICAL EVENTS

·         GALENET has timelines and Era Overviews.  (Passwords are available in the library)

 

·         Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

·         American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century

                                Library, Kingwood College

Features a collection of Internet resources on the decades of the 20th  century, provided by Kingwood College Library.

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

 

·         HyperHistory Online  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Timelines on people, history ,events, art, architecture

 

               

                Check out books that contain brief timelines such as:

                                Timetables of American History

                                Timetables of World History

                               

FASHION/FADS

                Check out the Time/Life books:

                                          Fashion of the Decades

                                          Mirror of Fashion

 

                Bad Fads Museum

Highlights information on fads throughout history

                 http://www.badfads.com/home.html

 

                Costume History

                                Part of  The Costumer's Manifesto

                                by Tara Maginnis

                http://www.costumes.org/pages/costhistpage.htm

 

Food History

                http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food2a.html

 

 

               

TRANSPORTATION

               

 

·         Smithsonian Institution: Transportation History  By Smithsonian Institution Presents information and FAQs about the history of transportation, provided as part of the Smithsonian FAQs site. http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/transportation.htm

 

 

 

STEP 3.

GATHER THE INFORMATION.

               

Be sure to note what you need for bibliographic citation.  For help with your bibliography go to:

 

http://www.beachwood.k12.oh.us/bhslmc/datah/index.html

 

  1. Type in your First Class User name and Password.
  2.  Scroll to the bottom of the page. 
  3. Click on NoodelTools.
  4. Type in the username and password posted on the Database page.
  5. Select MLA citation style.
  6. Follow the form for the source you are using.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example Timeline – 

 

                African American Timeline  http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/timeline.html