DATABASES - you will need to use page 24 of your planbook to access these services.

SIRS Knowledge Source: helpful for articles and access to quality websites.

Student Resource Center Gold: great for biographies and event or era overviews.

ABC-Clio: American Government & American History: Great source for overview, primary sources, and photographs.

History Resource Center: US (Thomson Gale)

NetTrekker - use this service to locate quality rated websites.

ProQuest Platinum & ProQuest Historical - use these to locate magazine and newspaper articles on your topic. The graphic interface may be especially helpful in ProQuest Historical.

SIRS Decades: provides newspaper and magazine coverage in American history. Mostly for 1900 - present.

Especially for African American History:

WEBSITES

African American World (PBS): Includes an illustrated timeline.

Citizenship, Due Process and the 14th Amendment.

Columbia University / Institute for Research in African-American Studies: Harlem History: biographical and political sketches as well as photo essays.

Digital History (University of Houston): America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War.

History Now / Race and the Constitution: see "ask the archivist" links to online issues.

The History of Jim Crow: provides background to Reconstruction and the institutionalized impediments to progress. Click here for a link to narratives: stories of people who lived through Jim Crow.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases: see links to cases and concepts in law.

Library of Congress / Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture: African American Mosaic. Includes information on the Great Migration.

National Archives / Archives Library Information Center / Black History: a list of annotated links.

National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tenn.): see the Gallery for biographical sketches and essays that dsicuss some of your research topics.

Research Organizer: use this document to keep your research on track.

Website Evaluation: use this document to assess the quality of websites you will use in your research.