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Historical Investigations
1. Determine your keywords. Spelling counts. Remember to put quotation marks around anything that is a phrase.
2. OPAC... do a POWER search to look for books on your subject (ex. "cuban missile crisis")
3. Reference Books.
4. Online Databases:

• History Study Center
• Proquest Historical Newspapers
• Facts on File
• Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
• World Book Online Encyclopedia
• History Resource Center (from the public library... you will need a library card number. Psst... see Ms. Voelker)

5. Other Gladiator Resources provided by Mr. Koch:

• http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/gladiators.html
• http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/spartacus.html
• http://www.roman-empire.net/highpoint/commodus.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/26907/emperors/commodus.htm
• http://www.historyinfilm.com/spart/index.htm
• http://pages.prodigy.com/kubrick/kubsp.htm
• http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/slavesandslavery/a/spartacus.htm
• http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/gladiatr/index.htm

6. Other helpful online sources:

• The National Archives
• The Library of Congress
• Archiving Early America
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Intelligence Resource Program: Cuba
• Online NewsHour Forum: Thirteen Days
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Biographical Sketch Project
1. Determine your keywords. Spelling counts. For some of your people, you may want to just enter in their last name and then select them from the list.
2. OPAC. Do a Power search for books you can check out from our Media Center.
3. Reference books and books on the cart in the Media Center.
4. Online Encyclopedia and Reference Databases listed below:
(Remember, you can get user names and passwords from the handout available in the Media Center)
Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold
World Book Online Encyclopedia
Proquest History Study Center
Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library: Encyclopedia of World Biography
5. Online Databases from the Public Library
History Resource Center
History Resource Center- Modern World
Biography Resource Center

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