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HISTORICAL LITERARY CONNECTIONS

GENERAL RESOURCES

RESEARCH TOPICS

1.Lewis & Clark expeditions	24. California gold rush in 1849
2. Fort Sumter falls, beginning the Civil War	25. New York Times founded in 1851
3. Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock	26. U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in 1857
4. Noah Webster writes the first dictionary	27. Arrest of Rosa Parks
5. Signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776	28. Gettysburg Address in 1863
6. Gettysburg Address delivered	29. Assassination of Lincoln
7. Soujourner Truth	30. Einstein's Theory of Relativity in 1905
8. Settlement founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607	31. Sinking of Titanic in 1912
9. Great migration of Pilgrims to New England in 1630	32. U.S. enters WWI in 1917
10. Sir Isaac Newton and the law of gravity	33. Harlem Renaissance in 1920
11. 1692 Salem witch trials	34. Nineteenth Amendment to teh Constitution gives women voting rights in 1920
12. Benjamin Franklin and electricity	35. Pearl harbor-U.S. enters WWII in 1941
13. Boston Tea Party in 1773	36. McCarthy hearings in 1950
14. American Revolution in 1775	37. U.S. Supreme Court rules segregation of public schools unconstitutional in 1954
15. Articles of Confederation	38. March of Washington with MLK, Jr. in 1963
16. George Washington inaugurated as first President in 1789	39. Assassination of Kennedy in 1963
17. Library of Congress established in 1800	40. Assassination of MLK, Jr. in 1963
18.  1791 Bill of Rights added to Constitution	41. Watergate scandal in 1974
19. President Thomas Jefferson negotiates the Louisiana Purchase	42. Tehran hostage crisis in 1979
20. Burning of Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812	43. Berlin Wall 1989
21. "Star Spangled Banner" written in 1814	44. Internet 1990s
22. Underground Railroad organized in 1830	45. War with Iraq-present
23. Zenger Case

GENERAL RESOURCES

Online Catalog

Use the Online Catalog to locate books in the Shelby County Library System. 

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Reference Resources
Use Reference Resources to get an idea of what was written at the time of the Historical Event your assigned.  Each of these resources will reference literature written at the time of an event in history.

Ancient
American
Internet

GENERAL REFERENCES

• The Literature Teacher's Book of Lists
  R809 STROUF
  Depending on your topic, it's a good place to start.
• The Encyclopedia of World Facts & Dates
  REF 902.02 CARRUTH
• The Timetables of History
  REF 902.02 GRUN
• The People's Chronology
  REF 902.02 TRAGER 
• Our Live & Times: From the Turn of the Last Century to the War on Terrorism
  REF 909.82 OUR TIMES

American
REFERENCE:

• Famous First Facts
  R031.02 KANE
• Women and the National Experience: Primary Sources in American History
  REF 304.4 SKINNER
• Industrial Revolution: Primary Sources (3 vols)
  REF 330.9034 OUTMAN
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature
  REF 810.9 HART
• American Facts and Dates
  REF 902.02 CARRUTH
• The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates
  REF 902.02 CARRUTH
• The New York Public Library Book of Chronologies
  REF 902.02 WETTERAU
• Black Firsts
  REF 909.0496 SMITH
• The American Destiny
  REF 973 AMERICAN
• Don't Know Much About History: Everything you need to know about American History but never learned
  REF 973 DAV
• Eyewitness to America
  REF 973 EYEWITNESS
• The Reader's Companion to American History
  REF 973 FONER
• American Chronicle: Seven Decades in American Life 1920-1989
  REF 973 GORDON
• 100 Key Documents in American Democracy
  REF 973 LEVY
• Great Events from History Series: American Series (3 vols)
  REF 973 MAGILL
• Profiles in American History (series vol. 1-4)
  REF 973 MOSS
• Words That Make America Great
  REF 973 WORDS
  Each event has a pertinent literature section.
• The Timetables of African-American History
  REF 973.0496 HARLEY
• The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference
  REF 973.7 LIBRARY
• Colonial America
  REF 973.2 REICH

CIRCULATING:

• Almanac of American History
  973 MILLER

Internet

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Online Databases

 

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