The Bullis School, Main Number: 301-299-8500
Library Resources for
History or Hollywood? Project
Mrs. Semple, Librarian
301-983-5721
Pat_Semple@bullis.org
- American Decades Primary Sources
- Click on "eTable of Contents" and select your decade from the drop-down menu. (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
- The Fifties. Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America
- Look for "remote login" tab --> password is "bsbulldogs" (Salem Press)
2009 May 17: I'm home tonight and available for questions via IM. Need to find one more source? Need help citing something? Use the chat box above. (Not available or even visible when on Bullis network.)
2009 May 12: I have consolidated my examples and search tips at the top of the list of Subscription Databases instead of sprinkling them throughout -- please take a minute to review them.
2009 May 12: JSTOR accounts will be active through Monday, May 18.
2009 May 11, 1:25pm: Remember to "share" your NoodleTools Works Cited list with Dr. Romeyn by using the Share button
and entering Romeyn C Movie or Romeyn E/A Movie or Romeyn G Movie.
2009 May 11: Welcome back, APUS students! "Second verse, same as the first" -- send me an email if you need help.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Set up a folder for downloading articles as you find them.
Some sample searches for the databases:
(review OR movie) AND "tora, tora, tora"
(jfk OR "president kennedy") AND assassination
"cinderella man" OR braddock
"frank lucas" AND (drug* OR gang* OR heroin)
"ron kovic"
"malcolm x"
war AND (iraq OR gulf)
"cuban missile crisis"
"medgar evers"
homosexual*
suburb*
vet* AND "vietnam war"
you must put AND between words/phrases
- ProQuest Historical Newpapers
- MOVIE REVIEWS & ANALYSIS:
Archival issues (1851-2001) of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
- ProQuest Platinum
- MOVIE REVIEWS & ANALYSIS:
Recent issues of many newspapers, including The New York Times (1980 to present)
and The Washington Post (1987 to present).
- Remember to re-sort your results by RELEVANCE:
- History Resource Center: World
- ERA & ANALYSIS:
To get a feel for the era, simply type in the name of your decade:
sixties seventies eighties - You can also search for an analysis of your film here:
- JSTOR
- ANALYSIS: We very fortunate to have this database of articles from
academic journals for a one-week trial.
You will each need to create a user name and password.
For the passwords to the various databases, please go to
Mrs. Lowry's website.
When searching for primary sources, limit your Google search to specific domains. In front of your search terms, add the following text:
site:edu site:gov site:milSome examples:
site:mil "black hawk down"
site:mil jarhead AND movie
site:edu "boys don't cry"
site:edu pleasantville
- Internet Movie Database
- NetFlix
- History in the Movies
- (Professor Shultz, University of St. Francis)
- History in Film
- (privately maintained by John Woggon)
- The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity
- (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
- Reel American History
- (Lehigh University)
And finally this, from Wikipedia's entry on itself, "Wikipedia: About":
"Visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute... Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which, in principle, anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in important ways. In particular, ...newer articles more frequently contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content, or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation that has been recently added and not yet removed..." [emphasis is added]
MLA Works Cited Page
- This is the 1 NoodleTools: Creating MLA List handout that I distributed in class on May 11.
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Remember to "share" your list
by using the Share button
and entering
Romeyn C Movie or Romeyn E/A Movie or Romeyn G Movie. - I will give you some feedback about your citations on Friday, May 15, and again on Thursday, May 21.
- For those of you that would like to try using the Notecards application, here is the handout 2 NoodleTools: Creating Notecards.