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    • HIST11 Banks: U.S. Historical Topics

    Prompt & Game Plan

    Prompt

    Pick a topic within U.S. History (1877 - present) and find a primary and secondary source related to the topic.

    Topics include the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, Native American History, Chinese Immigration, Suffrage Movement, Abolitionist Movement, Underground Railroad, Gilded Age, Chicano Movement, World War II.

     

    Identify research databases, primary sources, secondary sources, digital archives, etc. on your selected topic. Include all the information you would need to find the source again (e.g. author, title, published date and publisher, name of database, etc.)

    Select 1 primary source on your topic and answer the following:

    • Name of source:
    • Type of source (i.e. newspaper, diary, painting, etc.)
    • When and where was it written?
    • Why was this document / object written or made?
    • Who was the intended audience?
    • List two things the document tells you about life at the time it was written:
    • If you could ask the author one question, what would it be?

    The Game Plan

    • First, log into the Viking Portal to ensure the links below work properly.

    • We will use this Course Guide to discuss where and how to find information that is related to your prompt.
    • The side navigation tabs will help you understand how your LBCC Librarians conducted their searches to find information from OneSearch, Academic Databases, and the World Wide Web.
    • You can also "Schedule a Research Consultation" to follow-up with one-on-one research with an LBCC Librarian.
      • Bonus: Use the links below to expand your skills to learn more about searching OneSearch, databases, and the World Wide Web.

    Spectrum of Credibility

    The LBCC Library, like many academic libraries at colleges and universities, lives within the credible web domain of .edu.

    The Spectrum of Credibility helps illustrate why your professors want you to use library sources. After  all, librarians and scholars have spent decades curating credible resources for students like you to easily access and use.

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