Industrial Revolution Pathfinder Page

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Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on 
a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their 
research project.

Industrial Revolution

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search, such as Industrial Revolution, inventions, or inventors.

 Some titles we have are:

303.973
IND		 The Industrial Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1998.
338.0973
HIN		 Hindle, Brooke.  Engines of Change; The American Industrial Revolution, 1790 - 1860. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.
338.0973
MCC		 McCormick, Anita.  The Industrial Revolution in American History. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1998.
609.2
NOO		 Noonan, Jon.  Nineteenth-Century Inventors. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
909.21
COR		 Corrick, James A.  The Industrial Revolution. San Diego, CA: Lucent, 1998.
REF
609
WIL		 Williams, Trevor I.  A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to  Silicon Chips. New York: Checkmark, 2000.
REF
909.81
IND		 Industrial Revolution in America. (6 vols.).  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
REF
909.81
IND		 Arnold, James R. The Industrial Revolution...(10 vols. series). Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2005.

REF 909.81 STE

 Stearns, Peter. The ABC-CLIO Word History Companion to The Industrial Revolution. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 1996.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Industrial Revolution
http://www.42explore.com/industrial.htm
 Has biographies of important people, and links to many other sites related to the Industrial Revolution. of the 

American History-- Industrial Revolution Inventors
http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htm
Chart of Industrial Revolution inventors and information on their inventions.

19th Century Cultural History-- (Kingwood College Library)
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury1800.htm
Information on science, technology, social movements, and other aspects of life in the 19th century, arranged by decades.

 Internet Modern History Sourcebook -- Industrial Revolution
 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
Industrial Revolution background and links to information on social and political effects of it.

 A Chronology of the Industrial Revolution
 http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html
Chart of important inventions from 1563-1908.

Fall River History
 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/bristol/fallriver/fallriver.htm

 Holyoke Heritage State Park
 http://www.mass.gov/dcr/listing.htm

Lawrence Heritage State Park
 http://www.mass.gov/dcr/listing.htm

Lynn Heritage State Park
 http://www.mass.gov/dcr/listing.htm

Lowell National Historical Park
 http://www.nps.gov/lowe/
Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm

Shmoop
http://www.shmoop.com/literature/
"An educational website for high school and college students, created by Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley."Contains information on Literature, Poetry and U.S.History.


ONLINE RESOURCES

   Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and
     business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography
     Resource Center.

   eLibrary  [in library]  [from home]
     Full text database of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and
     maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published articles.

   ProQuest (Massachusetts Newsstand)
     Newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and   
     tenother Massachusetts newspapers.

   Grolier Online  [in library]  [from home]
     2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia
     Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant
     Web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

   Salem History Database
      Database which includes historical information from Great Lives and Great Events from   
      History series. Password needed if using from home (ask librarian for help).

CITING SOURCES

 

Edited by Media Staff
12/06/10
Date last edited
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