Film+Project+(United+States)

=__Plan Ahead__= toc
 * Y**ou may need to view your film more than once:**
 * View your film early in the semester, keeping in mind that reserve videos must be returned in five days, there are no renewals, and overdue fines add up quickly ($20 after three days).
 * If your film is checked out, check with the library staff to see if another library has a copy of your film.
 * Check YouTube, you assigned movie maybe available on-line.
 * Check this list of online movies provided by Swank motion pictures located in the UA catalog
 * **You may need to request materials from other libraries using the UA Libraries Catalog or OhioLINK Central Catalog**
 * Most materials arrive within five working days, but plan to leave extra time for your materials to arrive. You will receive an email notice that the items have arrived.
 * **Prepare you paper:**
 * by coming up with a topic, developing your thesis and creating an argument. View this website by Dartmouth University for tips on how to write an academic paper
 * Read Writing History by William Storey located in the library collection for additional tips

=__Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection__=

Books in the library's collection:
Ref BL 74 .R36 2010 Religion and everyday life and culture Ref BL 2525 .R448 2003 Religion and American cultures (print and online) Ref D 358 .G74 Great events from history. The 19th century, 1801-1900 D 505 .E47 2013 Empires, soldiers, and citizens : a World War I sourcebook D 521 .D86 The First World War D 723 .D39 2007 Day by Day: The thirties D 723 .D43 2008 Day by Day: The twenties Ref E 168 .S55 1996 Victorian America, 1876 to 1913 Ref E 169.12 .A178 2013 2000s in America Ref E 169.12 .A419 2011 American Decades 2000-2009 Ref E 169.1 .G7553 2009 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life in America Ref E169.12 .E515 2012 Encyclopedia of the sixties : a decade of culture and counterculture  (online and Print) Ref E169.12 .F498 2005 The fifties in America Ref E 169.12 .S447 The seventies in America E 181 .M6986 2012 For the common defense : a military history of the United States from 1607 to 201**2** E 840.8 .K4 G58 2013 Robert F. Kennedy and the shaping of civil rights, 1960-1964 Ref E 741 .G75 Cold War America, 1946 to 1990 Ref GT 31 .G74 2004 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present Ref GT 507 .G74 Greenwood encyclopedia of clothing through world history GT 596 .F3776 2001 Fashion sourcebook 1920s Ref HN 57 .O94 2012 Oxford encyclopedia of American social history Ref HQ 21 .G67125 2008 Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history Ref HQ 503 .C85 2012 Cultural history of childhood and family Ref JV 6450 .I5536 2013 Immigrants in American history : arrival, adaptation, and integration Ref TX 353 .C255 2000 Cambridge world history of food

__Suggested Series in our Collection:__

 * Click on the series
 * View the book titles
 * Request the materials to be pick up at Wayne College Library.
 * Read the E-books (some titles are available in this format)

American History Series
 * This series offers valuable overviews of different subtopics in American History

Daily Lives Series
 * What was life really like for ordinary people in other cultures throughout history? How did they raise their children? What did they do for fun? This link contains a list of books from the Greenwood series titled "//Daily Life Though History//" which covers arts, religion, food, literature, language, romance, rites of passage and coming of age, marriage customs, social and government structure, sickness and cures, warfare, sports and games, holidays, festivals, and more.

American Popular Culture through history
 * This series traces the numerous ways that popular culture has evolved throughout American history, with each volume treating a decade between 1900 and 2000.

Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900
 * Provides quick, in-depth examinations and current perspectives on landmark events from 1500-1900,includes ready-reference materials, including primary documents, for student research. Inside the pages of each volume can be found: narrative and interpretive topical essays,timelines, biographical portraits of key players, texts of key primary documents, photos, and maps.

Guide to Historical Events in American History
 * Guides to historical events in America, covers key figures, biographies and primary sources

View documentary films on your time period:

 * The library has many nonfiction films covering a range of historical topics. Many of these documentaries include interviews with scholars that may be used as sources in your research paper. When searching the library catalog on your topic, you can limit your results to material type: "audiovisual." (coming soon: Tutorial on how to search for audio visual material)

Suggested Audio Visual Series in our Collection:
American Experience >> showing how events reflected larger, more important themes in American culture or society.
 * This series is produced by PBS, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history,
 * Several of the titles are available for viewing online or you can place a hold to have the DVD ready for pick up at Wayne college Library

Biography Series
 * This is a series of DVDs documentaries about famous people from President Wilson to Malcolm X.
 * Several of the titles are available for viewing online or you can place a hold request to have the DVD titles ready for pick up at Wayne college Library

History Channel
 * This is a series of DVDs documentaries about historical events and people from the Monkey Trials to the Cold War
 * You can place a hold request to have the DVD titles ready for pick up at Wayne college Library

Twentieth Century Turning Points in U.S History
 * This is a series of DVDs Documentaries about historical events in the United States from The Gold standard Act to Waterwater
 * You can place a hold request to have the DVD titles ready for pick at Wayne College library
 * Several of the titles are available for viewing online

D 521 .F57 2005 DVD 4 volume set The First World War : the complete series D 521 .K555 2006 DVD Killing fields: The first world war D 522.22 .G74 DVD The Great War D 764. 3 .S7 B3885 DVD Battle of Stalingrad D 765.2 .W3 B388 DVD Betrayal : the battle for Warsaw D 767.99 .I9 2001 DVD Heroes of Iwo Jima E 806 .N55 2009 DVD 1930's D 811 .A2 T68 2006 1939, Total War E 185.61 .E94 2010 DVD 3 volume set Eyes on the Prize: American's civil rights years E 840.8 . C6 A44 2013 American Experience films presents: Clinton E 841 .C8435 2007 DVD Thirteen days in October HQ 76.8.U6 A447 2011 DVD American experience: Stonewall uprising KF 224.S3 M66 2008 DVD Monkey trial

=__Recommended Online Material__=

Online book databases or collections of e-books
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections) In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online) Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books Sabin Americana Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from the 1500s-1920s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

Online Book Titles
America in the world: a history in documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror Child labor in America : a history Civil rights movement Clothing through American history : the Civil War through the Gilded Age, 1861-1899 Cold War : the essential reference guide Culture and politics in the Great Depression First World War Great Depression and the New Deal Encyclopedia of American Indian history Encyclopedia of media and propaganda in wartime America Encyclopedia of strikes in American history Encyclopedia of the Korean War : a political, social, and military history Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history Industrial Revolution: Key themes and documents First World War Oxford companion to United States history Oxford encyclopedia of economic history Politics and diplomacy of peacemaking : containment and counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918-1919 (1967 historical e-book) Social history of the United States The 1900s

=Online Films= YouTube to find documentary films

Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere,
 * Databases:**

America in the 20th Century
 * Series:**
 * This series is produced by Films Media group
 * All the titles are available for viewing online

Freedom : a history of Us
 * This series is produced by PBS and Chronicles US history
 * All the titles are available for viewing online

Between the wars: economic seeds of World War II Bombing of Germany : Battleline Clinton :1999- 2000 Depression and war Empire Upon the Trails : The West Geography of Hope: The West Great Depression Nuremberg Trials 20th century turning points in U.S. history. 1900-1907, 1908-1918 20th century turning points in U.S. history. 1919-1928 ; 1929-1943 20th century turning points in U.S. history. 1944-1952 ;1953-1963 Year by year: 1930 Year by year : 1939 Year by year : 1948
 * Titles:**

=__Recommended Websites__= American National Biography Online is the premier biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure. Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theater, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library a treasury of fascinating insights into people and cultures all over the world. Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. HSUS provides data on history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade. Nuremberg Trial by University of Missouri-Kansas City Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, teachers, and scholars with an authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience. The site includes more than 8,000 articles by top scholars focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S.

=__Periodical Indexes__= Nineteenth Century U S Newspapers Digital Archive (1800-1899) With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. Academic Search Complete : Designed specifically for academic institutions, this is a comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals. View tips America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. It covers archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals. Film & Television Literature Index : The definitive index to film and television literature HarpWeek is the electronic version of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Historical New York Times contains historic issues from the New York Times. Includes issues dating from 1851. JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.

View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCOHost Databases View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCOhost databases

=__Online Journal Titles__= E- Journal Finder : Access a list of history journals accessible from a variety of databases

American History Atlantic monthly Film & history Film history : an international journal Historian History of the Family Historical journal of film, radio and television Journal of American history Mississippi Valley historical review William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine

=__Finding Books & Media__=

Books and media for the Humanities film project can be located in the UA Libraries Catalog  u sing keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event. If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLINK Central Catalog Examples of a keyword searches:
 * View tipsheet : on the Ohiolink Catalog
 * Western Frontier and women
 * Frontier and pioneer life
 * Robber barons
 * Social Darwinism
 * Gilded age
 * trade unions and strikes
 * New deal and Roosevelt
 * Word War I and battles
 * Battle of Warsaw and Soviets
 * Civil rights and segregation
 * Vietnam and Tet offensive

Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
D (General, History) D813-838 (World War I & II) DS557-558 ( Vietnam War) DS918 (Korean War) E (United States History) E175- 175 (American Presidents) E184 (Immigration, History) E660 (Gilded Age) E740- 884 (20th Century, United States) E741 (Cold War) E895-904 ( 21th Century, United States) F1 -F975 (United States, Local History) GT 31 -3400 (Clothing, folklore, customs) HC (Economic History and Conditions) HD 5708-8000 (Unions, Labors) HM (Sociology) HN (Social History) HQ (Family life and women studies) JV (Immigration) ML (Music) N (Art) PN (Movie reviews) Browse the Index for the title of your movie TX 724 (Food) U (Military art and science)

=Document Your Sources= Understand how to write an academic paper: View this website Dartmouth University Writing Program The Smucker Learning Center's documents and information Style Guides in the Library's collection: Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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