Crucible

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**SEARCH TERMS TO USE:

witchcraft

witches

salem witchcraft trials or salem witch trials

miller, arthur or arthur miller

proctor, john or john proctor

mccarthy, joe or joe mccarthy

senator joseph mccarthy

mccarthyism

crucible

red scare

blacklist

anti-communist senate hearings or anti communist senate hearings

communism and 1950s

 

DICTIONARY

Onelook.com:

http://onelook.com

The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):

ABC-CLIO  - Select the "American History" rectangle on the left:

http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/UnifiedLogin.aspx?ipaddress=true

EBSCO MegaFILE -  Be sure to check box “Full Text” under “Limit your results:”

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=keh%20

Encyclopedia ofWorld Biography (Gale Virtual Reference Library database):

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sain46794

Gale Group - Discovering Collection Database:

http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=mnkspps

Gale Group - Junior Reference Database:

http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=JRC&userGroupName=mnkspps

Gale Group – Student Edition:

http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=STOM&userGroupName=mnkspps

Grolier Online Encyclopedia:

http://go-passport.grolier.com

Salem Press’s Decades database covers the 50s through the 80s:

http://history.salempress.com

SIRS Researcher (Database):

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-res?id=S200004047-0-5226

The following are links to websites that are reliable but are not purchased databases (you have to figure out the citation yourself):

American Cultural History - Twentieth Century:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

American Memory - Library of Congress - Choose a decade from the top right section of the screen):

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/index.html

American Women Through Time:

http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

Arthur Miller – Georgetown University website:

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/miller.html

Arthur Miller – Washington State University website:

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/miller.htm

Arthur Miller, 1915-2005: A Descriptive Chronology of His Plays,Theatrical Career, and Dramatic Theories (through 1970) – Binghamton University website:

http://pods.binghamton.edu/~ccarpen/Miller.htm

Arthur Miller Files – University of Michigan website:

http://www.umich.edu/~amfiles

Authentic History Center - Primary Sources:

http://www.authentichistory.com

Chronicle of 1900-2000 (Scroll to bottom half of webpage):

http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/chronicle/chronicle.html?tqskip=1

Clusty.com:

http://clusty.com

The Crucible (covers the play, Miller, blacklists, Salem, McCarthy and more) – Fairfax County Public Schools website:

http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/crucible/miller.htm

EASE History (Video and photographs from American history-historical events, campaign ads, core values): 

http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html

Famous Trials:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Google Directory – By Time Period:

http://www.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period

History Central - 20th Century Year by Year:

http://www.historycentral.com/20th/index.html

Joseph McCarthy – Fairfax County Public Schools website:

http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/crucible/mccarthy.htm

Joseph McCarthy – Timeline – San Diego University website:

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/1950s/mccarthy.html

Joseph R. McCarthy Papers, 1930-1957 – Primary Sources – Marquette University website:

http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Mss/JRM/mss-JRM.html

Joyce Valenza's Pathfinders to The Decades.  Skip the Databases (passwords needed) and go on to the General Decade Portals, etc.:

http://doingthedecades.wikispaces.com/

LII (Librarians' Internet Index):

http://lii.org

Multnomah Homework Center - American History:

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#17th

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

The People History - Select a year using drop-down arrow on top right or a decade from the center of the page:

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com

Red Scare – Coast Community College District website:

http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/redscare.html

The Red Scare: A Filmography – University of Washington website:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/EXHIBITS/ALLPOWERS/film.html

Salem Witch Trials – Washington State University website:

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm

Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project – University of Virginia website:

http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft

Salem Witchcraft Trials – University of Missouri-Kansas website:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/sal_acct.htm

Timelines in History:

http://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML

20th Century History by the Decade:

http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html

20th Century History Timeline by about.com:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa110900a.htm

World Wide Web Virtual Library 20th Century History:

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA

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MLA Citation Guideline Sheets:

http://spps.schoolwires.net/Page/4105