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M2A1: Annotated Bibliography
M4A1: Project 1: Food in Colonial America PowerPoint

For this assignment you need:

at least three sources you intend to use in Project 1, including the source you shared in M2D2. (Scroll down on this guide to see recommended databases to search!)
a properly formatted bibliography.
an annotation of approximately 150 words following each citation. An annotation is simply a summary/evaluation of a scholarly resource. In addition to the brief summary/evaluation, be sure to also include a brief statement conveying how the resource is appropriate for inclusion in your research.
an abstract with a thesis statement.

Evaluating Sources (Video)

Annotated Bibliography Tip Sheet Many of your courses will require you to write an annotated bibliography. But what exactly is it? This quick guide will provide a definition and steps to create one.

In Module 2 you chose a topic and began gathering sources and crafting a thesis statement. Now you will articulate this thesis statement and use sources as evidence to support your argument in a PowerPoint presentation.

Food choices for this assignment (read the associated link here to get started):

You may use any combination of primary or secondary sources, with a minimum of three sources outside of assigned readings. Present your findings in a PowerPoint with at least 10 slides. Your PowerPoint should include an introduction slide, a conclusion slide and several images or graphics, all of which should be cited properly. You may choose to either cite your sources directly on the slide, or in speaker notes below the slide.

Help with your Powerpoint

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Use this image database to find images to put in your powerpoint. Be sure to include citations for your images!

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Project 2 Help

M5A1: Wills & Probates Inventories Worksheet
M7A1: Project 2: Wills & Probates

Review the requirements for Project 2 and read about wills and probate inventories. Then select a minimum of two of the listed wills and probates in your course and study them.Then, fill out the Wills and Probate Inventories worksheet.

Use your Wills and Probate Inventories worksheet, along with other sources, to craft a historical argument in a paper of 5-6 pages.

Find at least two relevant peer-reviewed journal articles from our library to draw out information about colonists’ lives. (Scroll down on this guide to see recommended databases to search!)

Peer Reviewed Articles: What Are They? Tips for determining what a peer reviewed article is and how to find them in the library databases.

Parts of a Scholarly Article (Video) Articles come in many varieties, but this video provides a few examples to refer to when determining the differences between scholarly and popular articles.

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Using Google Scholar: Finding Peer Reviewed Resources (Transcript)

United States History Research Databases

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America: History & Life This link opens in a new window Full text database that covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window Free resource that brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Includes hundreds of pamphlets and books written about slavery—defending it, attacking it or simply analyzing it. In addition, includes every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, which includes many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
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Alexander Street Videos (American History) "Key themes, events, and historical eras in U.S. History from the colonial period through the 21st Century. A vast collection of documentaries, newsreels, public affairs videos, and archival footage allows students and researchers to compare viewpoints and get personal and expert accounts on key topics such as the American Revolution, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, and the Vietnam War-and people--presidents, key leaders and activists. Taken together, this rich combination allows students and scholars to study history in new ways, by comparing, for example, the footage, transcript, and tone of government perspectives (United News Newsreel) of the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942 or D-Day in 1944 with the longer-term perspectives of documentaries like After Silence (Bullfrog Films) or D-Day: The Total Story (The History Channel)."
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Films On Demand This link opens in a new window Full-length streaming videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields.
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ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.
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