Assignment: Use the Technology Center's electronic resources, including the World Wide Web for your History Day project.

Project dates: February 7- March 5, 1997.

World Wide Web ...QUICK CLICKS... for your topic research:

• Chicago Black Sox Scandal 1919:
• 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal.
• This is the Truth - Shoeless Joe Jackson's story
• At the library, try multimedia CD-ROM Complete Baseball
• Muhammad Ali
• Muhammad Ali - the making of a champ
• Try UXL Biographies, Encarta Encyclopedia and EXEGY CD-ROMs at the library
• Helen Keller
• Helen Keller
• At the library, try UXL Biographies and Encarta Encyclopedia
• The Great Depression
• The Main Causes of the Great Depression
• At the library, see United States-History-Great Depression in Encarta Encyclopedia or SIRS Discoverer
• Lou Gehrig
• Lou Gehrig
• Try multimedia CD-ROM Complete Baseball and Encarta Encyclopedia at the library
• Transcontinental Railroad
• California State Railroad Museum - Transcontinental Railroad
• Museum of the City of San Francisco - Driving the Last Spike
• Titanic
• A Tribute to the R.M.S. Titanic
• Ravensworld Titanic
• The Titanic Resource
• At the library, see the Encarta Encyclopedia or SIRS Discoverer
• Dr. Sam Sheppard
• Akron Beacon Journal Extra: The Sam Sheppard Case
• Atomic Bomb
• The Seattle Times - Fifty Years from Trinity
• A-Bomb WWW Museum
• At the library, try SIRS Researcher or SIRS Discoverer
• Hiroshima
• Hiroshima
• Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?
• A-Bomb WWW Museum
• At the library, try SIRS Researcher or SIRS Discoverer
• Hindenburg
• Hindenburg page of the Zeppelin Library Archive
• At the library, try SIRS Discoverer
• US Space Program
• Windows to the Universe Click on Enter the Site and look at the Space Missions link
• NASA Office of Space Flight
• At the library try Encarta Encyclopedia (use the heading Space Exploration) or SIRS Researcher
• The Berlin Wall
• The Berlin Wall
• Berlin and the Two Germanies, 1945-1989 Pt. 1 Berlin at the End of WWII
• At the library - Encarta Encyclopedia has an article with video
• Challenger disaster
• Life Magazine The Challenger Disaster: 10 Years Later
• Federation of American Scientists Space Policy Project Challenger Accident
• NASA Space Shuttle Launches: 51-L
• Chernobyl
• Chernobyl: Ten Years Later
• The Chernobyl Disaster
• At the library, try Encarta Encyclopedia or SIRS Researcher
• Hitler
• The History Place - The Rise of Adolf Hitler
• Use UXL Biographies and Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROMs
• At the library, try SIRS Researcher
• Pearl Harbor
• The attack on Pearl Harbor
• Pearl Harbor Remembered
• At the library, try SIRS Researcher or SIRS Discoverer
• Teflon
• Inventure Place - Roy J. Plunkett
• San Diego Plastics - Teflon
• Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon)
• Question: WHAT IS TEFLON?
• Houdini
• The Houdini Museum
• At the library, see Encarta Encyclopedia and SIRS Discoverer
• Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Romans Page
• Mr. Santy's Cool History Stuff: The Roman Empire
• ROMARCH Roman Art and Archaeology
• The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia and multimedia Ancient Lands
• Salem Witch Trials
• Salem Massachusetts: What About Witches
• At the library, try SIRS Discoverer
• Jackie Robinson
• Jackie Robinson
• At the library, use UXL Biographies, Encarta Encyclopedia and Complete Baseball CD-ROMs
• Musicians and Drug Abuse
• Los Angeles Times articles about drug abuse in the music industry
• At the library try EBSCOhost periodical index
• Rigoberta Menchu
• The Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation
• Homage to Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Quiche Mayan
• Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before Alien Gods - 1992 interview
• At the library, try SIRS Researcher or SIRS Discoverer or EBSCOhost periodical index
• Ancient Egypt
• Lakewood Library/Emerson School pathfinder for Egypt
• Sherman's March Through Georgia
• Sherman's March
• Sherman's march to the sea
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Museum of the City of San Francisco - William Tecumseh Sherman
• Escapes from Alcatraz
• Alcatraz Island - Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Welcome to Alcatraz
• Lewis and Clark
• Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
• At the library, see the article in Encarta Encyclopedia
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Tubman
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia and UXL Biographies and SIRS Researcher
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
• At the library, see Encarta Encyclopedia, SIRS Researcher, EXEGY, and UXL Biographies
• Lusitania
• RMS Lusitania - Queen of the Seas
• RMS Lusitania
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster
• The Concord Review - Reform and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
• Triangle materials
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire
• Pompeii
• Vesuvius, Italy from Volcano World
• The 79 AD Eruption of Vesuvius
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia, SIRS Discoverer, and multimedia Ancient Lands
• Revolutionary War
• Lakewood Library / Taft School pathfinder on the American Revolution
• Civil War Death and Destruction
• The American Civil War Home Page
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia and SIRS Discoverer
• Moo Duk Kwan (Martial Arts style)
• Warrior Scholar - A brief History of Moo Duk Kwan Soo Bahk Do (Korean Martial Art)
• Black Plague
• Bubonic Plague
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
• At the library, use Encarta Encyclopedia, SIRS Researcher (search "plague" and "black death")
• Agent Orange
• Agent Orange and Vietnam Veterans' Children from the National Information System
• VVA's Guide on Agent Orange
• At the library, use SIRS Researcher
• Kent State University tragedy
• MAYDAY: Kent State
• Inquire, Learn, Reflect - May 4 1970 -25 Years of Remembrance
• At the library, use SIRS Researcher and SIRS Discoverer
• News and World War II
• War correspondents reflect on how job has changed since World War II
• Ernie Pyle
• Women Come to the Front
• Collinwood School Fire - please ask a reference librarian for help finding information on Cleveland history
• Crash of streetcar 642 off Carnegie Bridge (Viaduct disaster) - please ask a reference librarian for help finding information on Cleveland history

Need more information? At the library, try Electric Library.

Please ask for assistance if you have trouble locating information!

Remember that you need to make reservations for the World Wide Web and ProQuest.