DAILY LIFE THROUGH HISTORY PREMIUM September 24, 2009
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In an earlier post, we told you about a new database for us this year: Greenwood Publishing’s Daily Life through History Premium. We’ve put together a short guide sheet to help you, so click on the link below for an introduction to using this database. The guide sheet is also available from the Library’s Online Databases web page. If you need the username and password to access this database, pick up a blue sheet in the Library.
Daily Life Through History Premium Guide Sheet
OPEN MIC NIGHT September 21, 2009
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St. Patrick High School is hosting an Open Mic Night on Friday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m. All Resurrection High School students are welcome and encouraged to come and participate. See the flyer in the library for more information.
CHICAGO HISTORY 1750-1850 September 9, 2009
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Help with Assignments, Web Resources.1 comment so far
Here are some online resources for students in Ms. Boe’s History of Chicago course who are working on their group projects. I will be covering print resources as well as some tips for researching in my presentation tomorrow. If, in the course of your research, you find other good sources, whether print or online, I hope you will post them here to share with others.
Encyclopedia of Chicago Online (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org)
Librarians’ Internet Index (http://www.lii.org)
Britannica Online (http://www.school.eb.com)
Internet Public Library–Stately Knowledge–Illinois (http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/il1.html)
Daily Life Online — War of 1812 and other general U.S. History topics (http://dailylife.greenwood.com)
Illinois Harvest — a public gateway to digitized and born digital resources on Illinois (http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu)
Chicago Ancestors — Newberry Library — 1834 Map of Chicago (http://www.chicagoancestors.org) Go to Tools menu, then look for “Other Maps” along the right side.
Newberry Library — Mapping the French Empire in North America (http://www.newberry.org/smith/exhibits/fe/fe.html)
NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY September 8, 2009
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The Rock and the River; by Kekla Magoon
(Find it on our shelves at FIC MAG)
In 1968, 14-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father’s nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans, and his older brother who has joined the Black Panther Party.
SOME OTHERS YOU MIGHT LIKE:
All My Patients have Tales : Favorite Stories From a Vet’s Practice; by Jeff Wells (636.089 WEL)
Paper Towns; by John Green (FIC GRE)
The Woman Behind the New Deal : The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience; by Kristin Downey (921 PER)
Secret Keeper; by Mitali Perkins (FIC PER)
What Paul Meant; by Garry Wills (225.92 WIL)
Lock and Key : A Novel; by Sarah Dessen (FIC DES)
The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights; by Russell Freedman (921 AND)
Same Difference; by Siobhan Vivian (FIC VIV)
Why We Make Mistakes : How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average; by Joseph T. Hallian (153 HAL)
Stravaganza : City of Secrets; by Mary Hoffman (FIC HOF)
Acts of Light : Martha Graham in the Twenty-First Century; by John Deane (792.8 DEA)
