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ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME RESEARCH PATHFINDER - ORAL HISTORY PROJECT MR. COOPER AND MRS. RYDER - 8TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

974.045 || Immigration - Palestine Immigration - Italy || 796 || African American History Sports || Gandhi, Disney) || 909.52 || United States - Kennedy Administration Cold War - Cuban Missile Crisis || For example: "Three Mile Island" 333 - Environmental Issues  353 - U.S. & State Government (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)  621 - Sciences (Nuclear Power)
 * CALL NUMBERS **
 * 304.8, 305.8, 325 || Immigration ||
 * 973.049
 * 909 / 940.52 / 940.54 || World War II ||
 * 323.4 / 379.2 || Americans with Disabilities/Civil Liberties ||
 * 951.9 / 951.90 / 951.904 || Korean War ||
 * 973.93 / 973.931 / 974.7 || September 11, 2001 ||
 * 973.91 || Great Depression ||
 * 004 / 609.4 || Inventions / Technology ||
 * 324.973 / 973.927 || Reagan Administration ||
 * 305.8 / 973.089
 * 305.4 || Women's Rights ||
 * 920 / 921 || Biographies (Kennedy, Reagan,
 * 909.82 / 973.922 || Life in the 1940s ||
 * 909.82 / 973.922 || Life in the 1950s ||
 * 909.82 / 973.922 || Life in the 1960s (Cultural Revolution) ||
 * 973.92


 * KEYWORDS **

Search your topic by keyword and/or combine terms for a more specific search "Holocaust and American Liberation" "World War II and Japanese Internment" "NASA and Space Shuttle Program"

__ PRINT SOURCES __

REFERENCE and NON-FICTION Books

Books will be on reserve in the library or you can search the [|Library Catalog] with the call numbers and search terms provided above.

__ ELECTRONIC SOURCES __

DATABASES

**GENERAL REFERENCE - GOOD FOR MOST TOPICS** [|Student Resources in Context] - enter keyword(s) in search box [|Nettrekker] - enter keyword(s) in search box: [|Pop Culture Universe] - select "Explore a Decade" and choose your decade (1950s and 1960s) [|Daily Life Through History] - select "Explore an Era" - "Life in the Modern World 1900-present" - "Contemporary America" [|FactCite]

**TOPICS INVOLVING A SPECIFIC PERSON** (i.e. John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan) [|Biography in Context]

**TOPICS INVOLVING A PRO/CON OR CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE** (i.e. Racism in Sports, Immigration, Space Exploration) [|Issues and Controversies] [|Issues: Understanding a Changing Soceity]

(i.e. Korean War, World War II) [|American Government]
 * TOPICS INVOLVING A WAR **

(i.e. 1940's, 1950's, etc.) [|Pop Culture Universe] [|Gale Virtual Reference Library]- click "History" in left-hand column, click "American Decades" and click decade in upper right
 * TOPICS INVOLVING AN ERA **

**TOPICS INV0LVING A COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES** (i.e. Vietnam, Korea) [|World Geography] [|CultureGrams]

ONLINE RESOURCES

[|Notre Dame Library Catalog] - click "Academy of Notre Dame" - click "Catalog" - click "WebPath Express" to search for __**quality websites**__ for your project [|Library of Congress - American Memory Collection] - historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video in American History [|In the First Person] - an index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives [|Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: The Reagan Administration] [|History.com: 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program] [|Digital History: Feminism Reborn: Women in the Workplace] [|History Channel: World War II] [|Digital History: Landmarks in Immigration History] [|Korean War] [|BBC: Korean War: An Overview] [|The Wars for Vietnam] [|The Kennedy Library] - for information on the 60's and the Peace Corps. [|United States Holocaust Museum] [|911 Commission] [|Cold War Museum] [|ThinkQuest: The Cuban Missile Crisis] [|Cuban Revolution] [|PBS: Timeline of War: War on Terror] [|Library of Congress: September 11, 2001 Documentary Project] [|Library of Congress: The Civil Rights Era] [|National Civil Rights Museum] [|USA History: Civil Rights] [|The Literature and Culture of the American 1950's] [|American Cultural History: 1950's, 1960's, 1970's] [|Women and the Homefront During WWII] [|National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA] [|Fact Sheet on the Three Mile Island Accident] [|PBS: Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy] [|Living History Farms] - farming in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's [|Clark Humanities: Life during the Korean War] [|History Essentials: World War II Children] - also check the FAQ's section [|Digital History: Children and WW II] [|Pearl Harbor] [|Indira Gandhi] [|U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] - facts about Americans with Disabilities Act [|Naval History & Heritage: D-Day] [|National Archives - Homefront 1939-1945] [|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: World War II in Europe] [|Pbs.org: Okinawa] [|Nps.gov: Outbreak of the War in the Pacific] [|America's Navy] [|PBS: Walt Disney, Entertainment Empire] [|Digital History: The Great Depression] [|Whitehouse.gov: John F. Kennedy] [|Digital History: Italian Immigration] [|Arab American Institute] [|The Middle East Quarterly: Turkish Migration to the United States] [|September 11th Digital Archive]

20th/21st Century History/Pop Culture Information : [|Archer Audio Archives: Headlines and Audio from the 20th/21st Century] [|American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century] [|University of Minnesota Media History Project: 20th Century] [|About.com: 20th Century Inventors/History] [|Factmonster: Year by Year]

**INTERVIEW EXAMPLES** [|Interview with Holocaust survivor] (Audio Interview) [|Interview with Neil Armstrong] (Written Interview) [|Interview with Barack and Michelle Obama] (Video Interview)

[|American Centuries: 20th Century Oral Histories]
 * Oral History Examples **



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