Eighth Grade
Purdue Online Writing Lab — recommended for research, writing, grammar, bibliography help
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INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
Search for books
Look up your inventor and/or invention in Alexandria (online book catalog). In addition to finding library books, you will find websites and magazines cataloged in Alexandria.
Books with call numbers of REF 509, REF 609, or 608 or 609 (general books on inventions, with collections of inventions, biographies of inventors, etc.)
Online Databases
Biography in Context, U.S. History in Context, Science in Context are subsets of Gale and can be searched independently [password = schools]
Facts on File Databases (id = foote, password = reference) — includes American History Online, Modern World History, Issues & Controversies in American History, and Issues & Controversies that can be searched independently or in pairs
Gale Databases — [password = schools] magazines, journals, Discovering Collection, eBooks, reference books
Recommended websites
Alexandria — Search our catalog for websites
Academy of Achievement — Profiles, biographies and interviews with Jonas Salk (polio), Linus Pauling, James Watson (DNA), Edward Teller (atomic bomb), Chuck Yeager (breaking the sound barrier) , and others.
America by Air — From the Smithsonian Museum of Air and Space
American Heritage Magazine — an excellent site for articles
Born of Dreams — Inspired by Freedom — History of flight presented by the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
Dick Reiman’s Historical Articles — Once you’ve chosen an inventor/invention, look here for some extra historical tidbits, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Invent Now Hall-of-Fame — Short inventor biographies and invention impact on society
Inventions in America – Telephone, television, New York subway, technology timeline and forgotten inventors from PBS: American Experience: Technology
Inventors and Inventions– Search for an inventor or invention alphabetically, chronologically, or by subject.
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation — From the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History
Librarians’ Index to the Internet — A collection of websites on inventors and inventions
Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine — Resources that accompany the Nova TV series.
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
Online Database: Oxford Reference Online — Use this to find articles in the Oxford Classical Dictionary and other classical sources. [id and password = footesch]
Greek Mythology Today – Despite the cartoon figure that introduces this website, there is some good information on monsters in this site. From the home page, go to Homework Help and then choose Beasts and Creatures. Included in this site are the Furies, the Giants, Sirens, Medusa, Pegasus, Cerberus, Griffin, Arachne, Minotaur, Sphinx, Cyclopes, Chimaera, Triton, Hydra, Scylla, Centaurs, and Python.
Bulfinch’s Mythology — A searchable source of Thomas Bulfinch’s The Age of Fable.
Mythweb — Stories of Greek gods and heroes taken from Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey, and the Library of Apollodorus.
Encyclopedia Mythica – An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, searchable by keyword.
Windows to the Universe — World mythology, including classical mythology
The Perseus Project (below) is quite extensive and can take a little while to search through the layers, so use it when you have a good block of time.
Perseus Project – Includes a wealth of information on Ancient Greece, including Thomas Martin Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History, Livy’s History of Rome, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Horace’s Odes, Vergil’s Aeneid, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Thucydides’ Histories, works of Aristotle and Aristophanes, summary of Apollodorus’s Library, complete works of Christopher Marlowe (Elizabethan playwright), and many other translations of Greek and Latin works.
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Online Databases
Gale Databases — (password = schools)
History in Context — (password = schools) One of the databases in Gale, but can be searched separately. Try it.
History Online — both World History and American History (id = foote; password = reference)
Issues and Controversies in American History – (id = foote; password = reference)
Oxford Reference Online – Includes Military History and other WWII “Companions” (id and password = footesch)
World Book Online – (id = foote1; password = library) [Note: the id is "foote" followed by the numeral one.]
Websites
America and the Holocaust – from PBS American Experience
Avalon Project — World War II documents (primary sources)
BBC–History–World War II — Topics include:
Destination D-Day: The Raw Recruits | Battle of El Alamein | Battle of Monte Cassino | Battle of Arnhem; Battle for Berlin | The Soviet-German War 1941 – 1945 | Pearl Harbor : A Rude Awakening | Japan: No Surrender | The Burma Campaign 1941 – 1945 | GI Joe : US Soldiers of World War Two | Colonies, Colonials and World War Two
Digital History — American History including primary sources.
EyeWitness to World War II — Covers a lot of World War II. Primary sources
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum — Pearl Harbor, Japanese American Internment, the Holocaust, FDR’s Four Freedoms, WWII Conferences. Another page “for students” on the FDR website.
Modern World History — From the BBC–The Treaty of Versailles — Russia in revolution — Fascism in Italy — The rise of Hitler — The Wall Street crash — Nazi Germany — Stalin — The road to war — Axis success — People at war — Propaganda — Allied victory
National Archives, in collaboration with Google, has digitized historical newsreels. Primary sources. Newsreels from 1942-1945 include Iwo Jima, Women in the Army, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Yalta), Anzio Beach, the war effort at home, Japanese surrender, MacArthur’s return to the Philippines, and others.
National Archives (UK) — Bombing of Britain, women, spies, Winston Churchill and the bombing of Dresden, Hitler assassination plan, political cartoons, cold war, and others.
Nuremberg Trials — NPR collection of audio reports
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II — From the National Park Service, this online exhibit includes history of the women as well as stories, photos, and artifacts.
Soldiers of Berga — This is not a website, but is a copy of an article reprinted from American POWs of World War II: Forgotten Men Tell Their Stories, by Tom Bird (Praeger, 1992)
Soviet Propaganda Machine – PBS-sponsored site based on its “Red Files
S.S. St. Louis — Voyage of the St. Louis — from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Also see this speech at the Carter Center Library by Robert Rosen, author of Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
Truman Library — The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Tuskegee Airmen — From the National Park Service — American Visionaries
Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen – from Tuskegee University
20th Century Heroes and Villains — Essays on Winston Churchill and Dresden, John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mussolini and Abyssinia, Stalin and the Industrialization of the USSR, and Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb.
Also
Wartime Posters – from DiscoverySchool.com
World War II – Subtopics include :
World War II Megasites | D-Day / Normandy | Japanese-American Internment | Hiroshima | Hitler & Nazism | The Holocaust | Pearl Harbor | World War II Posters & Propaganda
Alexandria Researcher catalog
NOTE: The subject heading for WWII is World War, 1939-1945
Click here to search the catalog.
Bibliography Help
If your online source is originally from a book, use the bibliography form for a reference book.
If your online source is originally from a periodical (newspaper or magazine), use the bibliography form for a periodical.
For an example of a bibliography, see the Bibliographic Citation Guide.
