Download Turning Points: People, Ideas, Events (History Day 2013)

Turning Points in History:
People, Ideas, Events
Livonia HS Library
December 2012
Books: Some of the books in our library that might have helpful information:
The atom bomb
Call #: 355 ATO Tamara L. Roleff, book editor.
Turning points in world history. Published 2000.
The pyramid builders
Call #: 932 S Smith, Carter, 1962Turning points in world history. Published 1991
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Call #: 940.54 Claypool, J. Miner, Jane Claypool.
Turning points of World War II.
Published 1984
D-Day
Call #: 940.54 DAN Dank, Milton, 1920Turning points of World War II
Published 1984.
D-day
Call #: 940.54 M Miller, Marilyn, 1946Turning points in American history. Published 1986.
Hiroshima
Call #: 940.54 M McPhillips, Martin, 1950Turning points in American history
Published 1985.
Midway and Guadalcanal
Call #: 940.54 MAC McGowen, Tom.
Turning points of World War II
Published 1984.
The Battle of Britain
Call #: 940.54 MAR Markl, Julia.
Turning points of World War II
Published 1984.
The invasion of Poland
Call #: 940.54 SAU Saunders, Alan.
Turning points of World War II
Published 1984.
Pearl Harbor
Call #: 940.54 SHA Shapiro, William E.
Turning points of World War II
Published 1984.
The Berlin airlift
Call #: 943.1 W Westerfeld, Scott.
A Silver Burdett library selection. Published 1989.
The Berlin Wall
Call #: 943.1 M Mirabile, Lisa.
Turning points in world history. Published 1991.
The Meiji restoration and the rise of modern Japan
Call #: 952.03 A Avakian, Monique.
A Silver Burdett library selection. Published 1991.
The Tet offensive
Call #: 959.704 W Wills, Charles.
Turning points in American history. Published 1989.
Saratoga : turning point of the American Revolution
Call #: 973.3 K Ketchum, Richard M., 1922Published 1997.
The crash of '29 and the New Deal
Call #: 973.91 Glassman, Bruce.
Turning points in American history
Published 1986
History behind the headlines.
Call #: R 909.13 HIS
Published 2001.
Profiles in world history : significant events and the
people who shaped them
Call #: R 920 MOS [edited by] Joyce Moss and
George Wilson. Published 1996.
They made history : a biographical dictionary
Call #: R 920 WIG Wigoder, Geoffrey, 1922Published 1993
History of the ancient & medieval world
Call #: R 930 HIS [edited by Henk Dijkstra].
Published 1996.
Great events from history: modern European series
Call #: R 940 MAG VOL. III Magill, Frank Northen,
1907- .Published 1973.
Chronology of European history, 15,000 B.C. to
1997
Call #: R 940.02 POW edited by John Powell ; editor,
Great events from history, Frank N. Magill. Published
1997.
Great events from history: American series
Call #: R 940.2 MAG VOL. II Magill, Frank N. (Frank
Northen), 1907-1997. Published 1975.
Dictionary of American history.
Call #: R 973.03 DIC Robert H. Ferrell and Joan Hoff,
senior editors. 1996.
To find more books, use the library catalog on the library webpage or on your desktop. If you can’t
find a book specifically on your topic, try to broaden your search: for example, if there are no books on
the topic “Battle of Verdun”, try looking for books on “World War 1”.
Video:
Bing Videos
http://www.bing.com/videos/browse
Vimeo
http://vimeo.com
NBC Learn
(set up your own account; instructions on handout)
http://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12
SchoolTube
http://www.schooltube.com/
PBS
http://www.pbs.org
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Subscription Databases:
Go to the Livonia HS Library webpage at http://classrooms.livoniacsd.org/mdonofrio/index.htm
Click on the Subscription Databases link. Enter the username (livoniahs) and password.
Some databases to try are:
2. Biography Reference Bank Full Text Select
9. Gale Ebooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
16. NOVEL Gale Periodicals (33 periodical databases)
21. Opposing Viewpoints In Context
22. Salem Press Ebooks (Milestone Documents Series)
25. Student Resources in Context
Websites
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Resources from the Library of Congress on all aspects of the history of the US.
EuroDocs
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
NYPL Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Rare images from the New York Public Library’s Collection.
ProCon.org
http://www.procon.org/
Public Policy Issues and Groups from Vanderbilt University Libraries
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/pubpol.html
Other websites can be found by clicking “Links by Subject” on the HS Library Webpage. (Note: there are links for primary
source documents here.) U. S. Government documents can be found by searching at http://www.FDSys.gov