Pittsfield High School: Brendan Sheran’s Class
Monday, May 23, 2011

Suggestions for successful research

• Do yourself a favor and start early. It’s difficult for us to help you if you wait until the last minute.
• A library card is required to borrow items and use our computers. If you don’t have a card, make time to apply for one. Library cards are free.
• Databases are available from the Athenaeum website, www.pittsfieldlibrary.org, at the Online Databases link.
• Most databases can be searched from your home computer at any time, with your library card.
• Need assistance? Ask at the Reference Desk: We’re here to help.

Suggested Resources for Topics

Freedom Riders: (search also: Freedom Rides)

• [Call #: YA 323.1 Bausum] Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
• [Call #: YA 323.1 Haskins] The Freedom Rides : journey for justice
• [Call #: 323.1 Lewis] Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
• Databases: U.S. History in Context, African American History Online

Hurricane Katrina

• [Call #: J 976.335 Miller] Hurricane Katrina strikes the GulfCoast : disaster & survival
• [Call #: 371.1 Tisserand] SugarcaneAcademy : how a New Orleans teacher and his storm-struck students created a school to remember
• [Call #: 976.335 Rose] 1 dead in attic : after Katrina
• [Downloadable Video File] Frontline. The storm [electronic resource] / produced by Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith ; written by Martin Smith ; a Frontline coproduction with Rainmedia ; WGBH Educational Foundation.
• Databases: U.S. History in Context, New York Times

Media in America
(This is a  broad topic. It appears that 302.23 is a good place to start with American Media. There are many books in 302.23, but they have specific focuses. Once the student narrows the topic, particular books in this section would probably be of interest.)

• [Call #: 302.23 Gitlin] Media unlimited : how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelms our lives
• [Call #: YA 302.23 Petley] Media : the impact on our lives
• [Call #: YA 302.23 Streissguth] Media bias
• Databases: Culture Grams, American History by Decade

American and French Revolutions

• [Call #: YA B Lafayette]  Lafayette and the American Revolution
• [Call#: YA 973.311 Anderson] The causes of the American Revolution
• [Call #: YA R 973.3 Hannings] Chronology of the American Revolution : military and political actions day by day
• [Call #: DVD 944.04 French] The French Revolution [videorecording] : Liberté, egalité, fraternité, a new republic is born in blood
• [Call #: YA 944 Plain] Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution
• Databases: Gale World History in Context, Gale U.S. History in Context, American History Online (Facts on File)

Feminism and Changing Roles of Women post WWI

• [Call #: YA 305.42 Feminism] Feminism
• [Call #: 305.42 Feminism] Feminism in our time : the essential writings, World War II to the present
• Databases: American Women’s History Online, Gale U.S. History in Context
• Available at MCLA (interesting and potentially valuable source): [Call#: HQ1421.B47 1999] The women's liberation movement in America

9/11

• [Call #: R973.931 September] September 11, 2001 : a collection of newspaper front pages
• [Call #: 973.931 Bernstein] Out of the blue : the story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context

Domestic Terrorism

• [Call#: YA 303.62 Woolf] Terrorism : the impact on our lives
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context, Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context

 Evolution of the Auto Industry

• [Call# 338.4 Aamidor] At the crossroads : middle America and the battle to save the car industry
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale Student Resources in Context

Fast Food Revolution

• [Call #  394.12 Schlosser ] Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
• [Call # 647.95 Spurlock ] Don't eat this book : fast food and the super sizing of America
• [Call # DVD 338.19 Food] Food, Inc. [DVD]
• Databases: Gale Science in Context; Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context

 Social History of Vietnam

• [Call # 959.704 Lamb] Vietnam, now : a reporter returns
• [Call # 959.704 Karnow] Vietnam, a history
• Databases: Gale World History in Context, Global Issues in Context

Counter Culture/Beat Generation

• [Call # NEW 810.9 Morgan] The typewriter is holy : the complete, uncensored history of the Beat generation
• [Call # 810.9 Rolling] The Rolling Stone book of the Beats : the Beat Generation and American culture
• Databases: American History by Decade (The Sixties), Literature Resources from Gale

Marshall & Warren Courts

• [Call # 347.73 Rosen] The Supreme Court : the personalities and rivalries that defined America
• [Call # R347.73 Encyclopedia] Encyclopedia of the U S Supreme Court
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context

 Comparing the American Revolution to Vietnam

• [Call # R959.704] Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history
• [Call # 973.3 Axelrod] The real history of the American Revolution : a new look at the past
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context

 Baseball in American Culture

• [Call # 796. 357 Smith] Storied stadiums : baseball's history through its ballparks
• [Call # 796.357 Faith] The faith of fifty million : baseball, religion, and American culture Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context, Great Athletes

 U S Territories & Imperialism

• [Call # 327.73 Johnson] Blowback : the costs of American empire
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context

Espionage

• [Call #327.12 Volkman] Espionage : the greatest spy operations of the twentieth century
• Databases: American History Online (Facts on File), Gale U S History in Context