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 PATHFINDERS
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.

WORLD WAR I

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a topic, you 
can find some lists of books on World War I by typing in:

World War, 1914-1918
Soldiers--United States
World War I

Some titles we have are:

940.3
BEN		 The New York Times Book of World War I. Edited by Christine Bent. New York : 
Arno Press, 1980.
940.3
KEN		 Kennedy, David M. Over Here : The First World War and American Society. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.
940.4
EIS		 Eisenhower, John S. D. Yanks : The Epic Story of the American Army in World 
War I. New York : Free Press, 2001.
940.4
USC		 Uschan, Michael V. A Multicultural Portrait of World War I. Tarrytown, N.Y : Benchmark Books, c1996.
940.3
WOR		 World War I : Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 1998.
REF
940.3
GRO		 The Grolier Library of World War I. (8 vols.) Danbury, CT : Grolier Educational Corp, 1997.
REF
940.3
PEN		 Pendergast, Tom, and Pendergast, Sara. World War I Primary Sources. Detroit, MI : U X L, 2001.

SELECTED WEB SITES

First World War.Com
 http://www.firstworldwar.com
Dedicated to the facts, folklore, and trivia surrounding WWI.

The Great War and Popular Culture
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/wwivm/wwivmtg.htm
From a curriculum unit, this page has some very valuable links about art, music and photography 
of the time period.

World War I Cartoons
 http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/uboatcar.htm
This site has cartoons from WWI.

World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/index.html
An extremely useful page from Brigham Young University with links to primary source documents and 
images from the war.

World War I -- Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfguide.htm
A multi-layered source with links to primary sources, images, first-hand accounts, all well organized and 
easily accessible.

World War One--The Great War--The Western Front
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/History_Pages/WWI/WWI.html 
This is basically an annotated webliography of WWI with active links to many informational web pages. 
Unfortunately some of the links are outdated.

Wartime Journal
http://www.wtj.com/wars/greatwar/
Although this is a commercial site there is quite a bit of primary source material about WWI here.
There are some excellent first-person articles and some great photographs from the war.

World War I
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~worldwarone/
A page with information about World War I and other wars involving America.

Quaboag Regional Middle School/ High School-- Educational Resources http://quaboag.k12.ma.us/depts/virtual/virtual.html
Click on history and then choose United States History.  This a good site to look for information on WWI and other history topics.

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

Manifesto of the "Ninty-Three"
(also called the Manifesto to the civilized world)

Einstein

ONLINE RESOURCES

The databases available that contain up-to-the-minute magazine and newspaper articles are:

InfoTrac® PowerSearch
    Contains databases of magazine articles, biographical resources, literature, health and business references.

Gale Biography in Context
Contains full-text articles from magazines and newspapers; images and links to websites. Search for people--both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor.

Gale U.S. and World History in Context
WHEN SEARCHING: Select both U.S. and World button in order to search both databases at the same time.
Contains information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. & World History. Merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, new articles, primary source documents, images, video, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Salem History (ask librarina for password if using this database from home)
Includes: *Great Lives & Great Events from History
              *Milestone Documents: American History

Gale Science in Context: (for Ms. Najolia's project)
"Contains full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites."and newspapers; images and links to websites. Search for people--both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor.

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

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.

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