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Course Specific Resources
Reference Resources:
Encyclopedia Britannica - High School (search for both Christopher Columbus, then Columbus Day)
Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's High School Edition.
Possible Key words:
Columbus Day
Americas
Controversy
Protest
Observance
Sample Searches
Sample Search in Search@UW (try to select: resources type newspaper, then try to select one of the following as suggested by your professor):
"Columbus Day" Limited to the materials in the Educational Materials Center
Newspapers:
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
US News and World Report
The Washington Post
Newsweek
Academic Databases (You must have a minimum of three academic/credible resources for this other than Lowen's chapter):
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more than 13,000 publications.
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Educational Textbooks: (list and examine at least three history k-12 textbooks and compare the content of its coverage on the topics you
identified in)
Grade school Textbooks are located in the EMC (educational materials center--Polk 1st floor). Stop by and ask EMC Librarian Jessie
Ammons for help