Spartan Guides: History & Film: Getting started

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American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film by Trevor McCrisken; Andrew Pepper
ISBN: 0813536219

Publication Date: 2005-03-14

This book is available in the LA library. Come check it out.
History in the Media by Robert Niemi
ISBN: 1576079538

Publication Date: 2006-07-05

This book is available in the LA library. Come check it out!
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film by Peter Rollins (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231112222

Publication Date: 2004-03-24
Whitewashing the Movies by David C. Oh
ISBN: 9781978808621

Publication Date: 2021-10-15
Hollywood and History by Jem Duducu
ISBN: 9781538177068

Publication Date: 2023-09-15

This book is available from the Boston Public Library and may be available through other public libraries or Inter-Library Loan. Talk to your public librarian.
Movie-Made Appalachia by John C. Inscoe
ISBN: 9781469660158

Publication Date: 2020-11-24

This is an ebook and available with a Boston Public Library card. It is also on Hoopla, which is available to you with a BPL ecard.
American History Through Hollywood Film by Melvyn Stokes
ISBN: 9781441175922

Publication Date: 2013-12-05

This book is an ebook available through Sora, which is free to use. Check with the librarian about how to access the book.

Noodletools
Create a bibliography, take notes, keep track of all research through Noodletools.

Boston Public Library Card
Sign up for a free Boston Public Library ecard and gain access to all of their digital resources.
Kanopy, Hoopla and Biblio+
Once you have an ecard from BPL, you can access all of these digital video resources.

Below you will find a selected list of print titles to provide you with background information.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2013: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. R320 STATESMAN
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations 4v. R327.73 Enc
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy 3v. R327.73 Enc
The New York Times Front Pages: 1851 - 2013 R909.8 NYT
Encyclopedia of the Cold War 5v. R909.82 Tuc
History in Dispute: the Cold War (vols. 1 and 6) R909.82 HIS
Encyclopedia of Modern China 5v. R951.03 Enc
The World Today Series: East and Southeast Asia (2013)
Annals of America 21v. (primary documents arranged chronologically) R973 ANN
Dictionary of American History 10v. R973.03 DIC

Academic Video Online - AVON
Documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. It delivers over 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY®, and more.
American History in Video
Includes 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half is contemporaneous video from the 1890's to the 1980's. Hundreds of the documentaries most frequently used in history classrooms, from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Bullfrog Films, Documentary Educational Resources, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, The History Channel, and others.

Pop Culture Collection
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Communications and Mass Media Collection
Provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more
Gale Databases
All Gale databases menu page. Note the subject range of databases in the A-Z listing of resources. It is also possible to conduct a PowerSearch across all of the Gale databases.
Britannica Online School Edition
A combination of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines, and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Check bibliographies and notes in your article results to identify research trails.

Issues and Controversies
Explores hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Presented in a balanced, pro/con format, each article presents the key facts, arguments, history, and current context—an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

World History: the Modern Era
Background information, primary sources, and perspectives essays covering the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation. Browse by content type, topic, and era.
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War and Terrorism Collection (Gale OneFile)
Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
World Geography

Subscription and open web news sources.

New York Times, The
FULL ACCESS - Current national and international news from the Pulizer-winning industry leader.

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