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 AGES: Resume

 

Preparing a Resume for a Presidential Candidate /

Evaluating President Obama

 

 

The BEST sources for current information about your candidate are:

 

1.  CB West Library's Electronic Databases

2.  News Sites Pathfinder

3.  NY Times Topics pages

4.  VoteSmart.org

5.  FactCheck.org

6.  C-Span Campaign 2012

7.  On the Issues: 2012

8.  Each candidate's own website

 

 
 

 AGES: Core 1

 
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CB West Library Pathfinder for:
AGES - Core Assessment #1

1. Books - Use cart + Destiny card catalog to search for books on your topic.  Remember to use the index to search for specific topics in larger books. 

eBooks on EbscoHost  (located in POWER Library)
 
2. Articles - Find reference articles and magazine, newspaper & journal articles using the electronic databases below.  Or, search through the Time & Newsweek past issues on the book cart.
 
OmniFile Select  (in POWER Library)
 
InfoTrac NewsStand    (in POWER Library)
 
Readers' Guide Select  (in POWER Library) 
 
 

 Imperialism

 
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CB West Library Pathfinder for:
MODERN WORLD HISTORY - IMPERIALISM
 
1. Books - Use cart + Destiny card catalog to search for your country. Use index to search terms such as 'imperialism', 'colony/colonies', and the name of the mother country or colony.
 
2. Databases
 

eBooks on EbscoHost  (inside POWER Library under 'Find a Book')

Discovery Education

3. Websites - Keywords for effective searching: [name of country] + colonies or colonization; [country] + imperialism; [name of country] + empire. Use the GOOGLE SMART SEARCHING tips further down on this page to come up with better search results.

Country Research

CIA World FactBook

BBC Country Profiles

Library of Congress Country Studies

U.S. State Dept: Background Notes

PBS Commanding Heights - Countries

The World Bank (focuses mostly on economies)

Amnesty International (focuses mainly on human rights)


Imperialism
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/imperialism/index.cfm
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/imperialism.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-NewImperialism.htm

Belgium’s Imperialism/Colonization
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/149.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/150.html
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/5918/Africa-Belgian-Colonies.html

French Imperialism/Colonization
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/118.html (Algeria)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/dztoc.html (Algeria)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html (Cambodia)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/latoc.html (Laos)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/vntoc.html (Vietnam)
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/French_16178.html (West Africa)
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his312/lectures/fren-occ.htm (West Africa)
http://www.asnom.org/en/151_aof.html (West Africa)

British Imperialism/Colonization
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/empire/g1/cs2/default.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/scramble_for_africa_article_01.shtml
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/
http://countrystudies.us/south-africa/16.htm (South Africa)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sdtoc.html (Sudan)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/egtoc.html (Egypt)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ngtoc.html (Nigeria)
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad21 (Kenya)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_2656000/2656973.stm (Hong Kong)
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2747.htm#profile (Hong Kong profile)
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.10.x.html (India)
 
German Imperialism/Colonization
http://web.archive.org/web/20010815064728/http:/www.public.asu.edu/~hwitbooi/germanempire.htm (E. Africa)
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/German_East_Africa
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work/German_East_Africa

Japanese Imperialism/Colonization
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html (Japan)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html (North Korea)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/krtoc.html (South Korea)

Portuguese Imperialism/Colonization
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aotoc.html (Angola)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pttoc.html (Portugal)
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab48

Dutch Imperialism/Colonization
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/idtoc.html (Indonesia)
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/MUHLBERGER/2805/dutchind.htm
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/touwen.indonesia
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/dutch-occupation-is-a-story-of-resistance-not-colonization-historian/353764
 
China
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/imperialism/china.cfm
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/china_in_1900.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/china/breakup.htm
 
Russia
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sutoc.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mntoc.html (Mongolia)
http://www.sras.org/the_effects_of_the_mongol_empire_on_russia
 
Italy
http://www.eritrea.be/old/ethiopian-imperialism.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/lytoc.html (Libya)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sotoc.html (Somalia)
 
United States
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/phtoc.html (Philippines)
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us27.cfm