Film+&+History+Research+Project

Pathfinder website: https://waynecollegelibrary.wikispaces.com/Film+%26+History+Research+Project =__Humanities Film Project__= toc = = =__Plan Ahead__=
 * **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 311 .M97 2000 Myths and Legends of the world Ref BR 95 .E8913 Encyclopedia of Christianity Ref BR 170 . E76 2007 Daily life of Christians in ancient Rome Ref BR 302.8 .093 1996 Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation (print and online) Ref CB 351 .E53 2009 Encyclopedia of society and culture in the medieval world Ref CB 351 .G743 200 9 Greenwood encyclopedia of global medieval life and culture Ref CB 359 .R455 2007 Renaissance and Reformation Ref CT 114 .I36 2012 Icons of the Middle Ages (print and online) Ref D 70 .A42 2009 Daily life of the pagan Celts Ref D 135 .F73 2003 Encyclopedia of barbarian Europe (print and online) Ref D 155 .C78 2006 Crusades : an encyclopedia Ref DA 315 .365 2012 Encyclopedia of Tudor England Ref DT 61 .B685 1999 Daily life of the ancient Egyptians Ref G 1030.L6 2013 Atlas of military history**:** an around-the-world survey of warfare through the ages Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online) Ref GT 31 .G74 2004 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life : a tour through history from ancient times to the present Ref GT 507 .E535 2013 Encyclopedia of national dress : traditional clothing around the world Ref GT 511 .L474 2008 What people wore when : a complete illustrated history of costume from ancient times to the nineteenth century for every level of society Ref GT 2690 .65 2013 Marriage customs of the world : an encyclopedia of dating customs and wedding traditions 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 HQ 1143 .W643 2004 Women in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia KJ 147 .J38 2009 Medieval Justice: cases and laws in France, England and Germany, 500-1500 Ref ML 172 .L67 2008 Music in the middle ages, with an introduction on the music of ancient times, Ref TX 353 .C255 2000 Cambridge world history of food U 37 .L46 Medieval armies and weapons in Western Europe

Suggested Book Series in our Collection:
==== Daily Lives Series ==== Health and Wellness in Daily Life Very Short Introduction ====Women's roles through History 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.
 * Presents a detailed, comprehensive examination of health and healthcare in specific time frames, ranging from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period and to the 20th century•
 * Reveals how religious and political views as well as intellectual or scientific concepts of the time affected treatments and attitudes towards the victims of ill health•
 * Examines the special circumstances surrounding women's health, childbirth and maternal/fetal health, and infant's and children's health, across cultures and throughout history
 * Books in the series offer concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts in the field.
 * This series of women's role, across classes, examining their lives in terms of their roles in family, work, politics, law, religion, arts and sciences, and

=Audio-Visual Materials in the Library Collection:=

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." ==== Biography Series ==== ==== History Channel ====
 * This is a series of DVDs about famous people from Cleopatra to St. Francis of Assisi produced by the History Channel and A & E
 * This is a series of DVDs about historical events and people from "The Last Stand of the Spartans" to" Alexander the Great Conquests"

BX1713 .S43 2007 DVD Secret files of the Inquisition D 62 .D43 2006 DVD Decisive battles. The ancient world: 13 defining moments from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to the struggle over the Persian Empire D 121 .D37 2007 DVD The dark ages : the fall of civilization, the rise of a new world order DG 89 .L4463 DVD Legions of Rome: three volume set DG 270 .R66 2008 DVD Rome: rise and fall of an empire DK 61. R87 DVD Russia land of the Tsars: Four volume set DL 65 .B37 2003 DVD Barbarians: Two volume set: DT 92.7 .C54 2007 DVD Cleopatra: destiny's queen U 27 .F66 DVD Foot soldier. The medieval soldier
 * v.1 Punic Wars
 * v.1 Gallic Wars
 * v.3 Roman Invasions of Britain
 * v.1 The Viking and The Goth
 * v.2 The Mongols and The Huns

=__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

Online titles
Ancient Greece : from prehistoric to Hellenistic times The early medieval world : from the fall of Rome to the time of Charlemagne Encyclopedia of the Black Death Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Gale Encyclopedia of Religion Life in the Medieval Cloister Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period(online Google Book) Medieval folklore: an encyclopedia of myths, legends, tales, beliefs and customs Medieval single women : the politics of social classification in late medieval Englan Monarchs of the Renaissance : the lives and reigns of 42 European kings and queens Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation Oxford companion to military history Oxford dictionary of the classical world Vikings on film Who's who in the classical world

Online Films
YouTube to find documentary films Digitial Resources Commons OhioLink covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 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:**

Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome Barbarian General Battle of Hastings Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire Greek awakening : art from the 5th century BC Legions of Rome Medieval London : 1066-1500 Pompeii daily life of the ancient Romans Russia: A Closer Look
 * Titles:**

=__Recommended Websites__= 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. Best of the Web with the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. Catholic encyclopedia  is online encyclopedia that covers church history within the Western World, its doctrines, art and literature. Humanities WWW Virtual Library alphabetical directory of humanities topics such as archaeology, architecture, literature, philosophy with its own virtual library. llustrated History of the Roman Empire website offers a comprehensive history of the Roman Empire through essays, chronologies, photo galleries, maps, lists, timelines, and more. Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Open Directory History @http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/ a subject directory listing History websites by region, time period and topic. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an online encyclopedia Voices of the Shuttle : a directory of Humanities websites produced and maintained by the University of California

=__Periodical Indexes__= 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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. 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 Historical Abstracts : Includes articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada) Humanities International Complete : Provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. 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

Essays in medieval studies European history quarterly Film & history Film history : an international journal German studies review Historian History of the Family Historical journal of film, radio and television Journal of late antiquity Journal of world history Renaissance quarterly
 * List of E- JournalTitles**

=__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 View a Tipsheet

Examples of keyword searches

 * Joan of Arc
 * Middle ages and women
 * Finland and folklore
 * Christianity and inquisitions
 * Rome and gladiators
 * Ancient Rome
 * Rome and barbarians
 * Rome and Punic wars
 * War of the Roses
 * Byzantine Empire
 * Slavery and Rome
 * Renaissance and social life and customs
 * Alexander the Great
 * Greece and democracy
 * Weapons and battles

=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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