Books
More Web sources:
NY Times, A and E Biography (Really! It's surprisingly good!), BBC Witness History, Aljazeera, The Guardian. US State Department, Newspapers.com, NY Times Archives, Fordham Modern History Source Book, Yale, WoodrowWilson Center, Brigham Young University, Churchill Archives, Rutger's Oral History Library click on HTML or PDF after a person's name, CIA Historical Collections
Web sources for specific people:
Benazir Bhutto-speech, Indira Gandhi-speech, Kim Il Sung (Korean War Oral Histories)
- Hingham High LMC Catalog - We have pulled several relevant titles for you to reference while you are here, but there are many still available on the shelves, and several ebooks available for you to browse as well. You can either search the main catalog or select “Hingham High School”, then “Resource Lists” under Project Specific Listings. There is a specific list of books and ebooks related to this project under “Cold War E Books”.
- Hingham Public Library - You can either place an item on hold and go pick it up at Hingham (regardless of where the item is in the library network - Hingham, Rockland, Weymouth, etc. - and it will be sent to Hingham for you), or you can sign up for an ecard. You can sign up for a digital library card by visiting the Library's catalog and clicking "Log In" in the upper right. With an eCard, you can place holds on library materials, use reference databases, and borrow digital materials from Overdrive/Libby and RBdigital. You can replace this card for a physical one at anytime by visiting the library. If you are prompted for a library card number you may use 23490000477766 when you are in school.
- Hingham Public Library subscribes to Gale Ebooks.
- Boston Public Library - Anyone who lives in MA can sign up for a free ecard here. Then you can search the Boston Public Library catalog, narrow your results down to ebooks, and you have more resources available to you.
- Hoopla
- Libby
- PBS Learning Media: The Cold War - Good place to start if you need more general info. Videos, audio clips, primary sources available here
- Bunk History - This can help you dive a little deeper into your topic. This site brings together resources from around the web and connects them through shared themes, people, and time periods.
- National Security Archive - Can search by country or conflict for declassified information on past United States national security matters and foreign conflicts
- CIA Factbook - The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- Al Jazeera - World News Source
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Dictators - A landing page with information about various world dictators throughout history
- ThoughtCo - This website allows you to search for a specific person or look through information by country
- History Channel - General information about the history of the cold war as well as articles on featured topics. Articles, videos, and pictures available.
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Can narrow your search by people, places, and topics.
- Digital Public Library of America- This will cite your source for you!
- New York Times - Run a preliminary search in the upper left hand column. Narrow by date when your search results load
- BBC- Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
- Library of Congress - Search for your person or event in the top right corner. Narrow your search results with the options on the left.
- Time Magazine Vault - Contains past articles featured in TIME Magazine
- Cold War Oral History Project - The Cold War topic features interviews with historians, scientists, philosophers, activists, artists, working people and children offering perspectives on what it meant to live in the shadow of numbing concepts such as "mutually assured destruction," the atomic bomb and the Space Race.
- Ideological Foundations of the Cold War - From the US National Archives
- Gale - Biography in Context, World History in Context, War and Terrorism, US History in Context, Opposing Viewpoints, Britannica School
- Facts on File - UN/PW hingham/hingham — Modern World History
Citation Help - Knight Cite - Plug in the information and this will format your source for you! Or try ZOTEROBIB
- Chicago Citation Style Guide - Need to cite something and Knight Cite isn’t cutting it? Additional citation questions can be answered by looking through the citation style guide.
More Web sources:
NY Times, A and E Biography (Really! It's surprisingly good!), BBC Witness History, Aljazeera, The Guardian. US State Department, Newspapers.com, NY Times Archives, Fordham Modern History Source Book, Yale, WoodrowWilson Center, Brigham Young University, Churchill Archives, Rutger's Oral History Library click on HTML or PDF after a person's name, CIA Historical Collections
Web sources for specific people:
Benazir Bhutto-speech, Indira Gandhi-speech, Kim Il Sung (Korean War Oral Histories)
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