Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Research Tools - Good starting points

Use this site to help find key words, their meaning, and visuals from large bodies of text:

http://www.wordsift.com/

Below are some links that will be good starting points for research on your journals.   I will be adding to this post on a regular basis, please continue to check back to view additional sources.

Primary Source Documents for American History:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/PrimDocsHome.html 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

Before, During, and After the Civil War Primary source documents:

http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/choosepart.html 

http://www.newsinhistory.com/feature/newspaper-articles-about-slavery-precursor-civil-war

Slave Narratives:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/primary-source.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/online.html 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html



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7 comments:

  1. thanh thao wattleFebruary 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM

    http://storiesofusa.com/american-indian-wars-1622-1890/

    I think it's a credible website. It got great video except for the introduction of the second video.
    +Famous biography editor
    +Some information take from books.
    +com.
    +It got contact

    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

    It's credible.
    +Information from University Texas Library.
    +Last edit is Feb 2012
    +'edu.'
    +It got primary sources

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  2. AnthonyFebruary 19, 2012 at 3:30 AM

    IF you guys are looking for major battles on the Civil war here is the wikipedia link:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles

    Hope you guys like it:D

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  3. thanh thao wattleFebruary 19, 2012 at 7:49 AM

    The web show great information. If you guys wanted to find out more about biographies,maps, narrative. This would help you:

    http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/overview.htm

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  4. Blake's BlogFebruary 19, 2012 at 6:34 PM

    Wattle - some of the photos on this site (http://storiesofusa.com/american-indian-wars-1622-1890/) are fine as primary source documents, but the site overall is not a reliable source of information. When was the last time it was updated? Contact info is just an email address, not a physical address, and the information is fairly limited. Keep searching.

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  5. Anh NguyenFebruary 20, 2012 at 7:50 AM

    http://encyclopediavirginia.org/Slavery_During_the_Civil_War#itsFR

    I found that, it's pretty helpful if you're doing about a slave's life like I am. (Nottttt entirely helpful, but you get this idea) I find it pretty reliable (I COULD BE WRONG) so, definitely check that out as a starting point, (STARTING point)if you're a slave for your journal.

    http://www.civil-war.net/

    That cite, it's not entirely reliable, it's kind of like a search engine for civil war only. So you go there, find a website that seems reliable, and then start out with that. I don't know how to explain it, but starting point, sure. (I still don't think it's entirely reliable....but I'll just let you guys be the judge)

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  6. Blake's BlogFebruary 20, 2012 at 5:01 PM

    Anh, the first is most definitely a credible source of information. And as you said, the second one is a great resource to use as a search engine. For example, I found this: http://www.civilwarphotogallery.com/

    Great find!

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