Resources
- Biography in Context
- U.S. History in Context
- QuestiaSchool (Login Instructions)
- NY Times Archive (Login Instructions)
Guides
Imperialism Newspaper Project (Fairchild)
Your assignment is to create a newspaper from an earlier time in U.S. History. Start with this template.
Great sources of info
The GVRL includes History in Context, opposing viewpoints on many of the topics.
History published by historians.
Primary documents
Search the Library of Congress for images, maps, audio, video, and more.
African-American Heritage Trail Research Project Topics
General
Search this database of published articles for everything from overviews to in-depth information written by historians.
Use this database for over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts. Indexes all print volumes of the series.
Martha’s Vineyard African-American Heritage Trail (official site)
General
Lee, Denny. “Shifting Sands At a Historic Black Enclave.” New York Times (New York, NY), July 25, 2003.
Hunter, Charlayne. “More Negroes Vacation as Barriers Fall.” New York Times (New York, NY), September 7, 1970.
Tankard, Carrie, and Elaine Weintraub. “Innkeepers of Oak Bluffs: They Dared to Dream.” Vineyard Gazette [Edgartown, MA] 6 Oct. 2000: 1. Print.
Jones, Je’Lesia M. “Uncovering Island’s Black History.” Martha’s Vineyard Times [Vineyard Haven, MA] 4 Feb. 1993: 16. Print.
Good info about Shearer Cottage, among other topics.
Weintraub, Elaine. Lighting the Trail: The African-American Heritage of Martha’s Vineyard. Oak Bluffs, MA: African American Heritage Trail History Project, 2005.
> List of books and other info at the MVRHS Library
Enslavement on Martha’s Vineyard
Rebecca Amos (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Civil Rights Five
Civil Rights Five (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Fugitives from Enslavement on Martha’s Vineyard
Randall Burton (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (Related Articles from Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Nancy Michael
Nancy Michael (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Emma Chambers Maitland
Emma Maitland (girlboxing.org) Some interesting primary sources.
Welcome to the trail, Emma Maitland (MVTimes)
Boxing her way to equality and justice (Vineyard Gazette)
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Biography in Context)
Isabelle Powell
Isabel & Adam Clayton Powell (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (Biography Research Center)
Isabel & Adam Clayton Powell (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
A. Phillip Randolph
“A. Philip Randolph.” American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Web. 5 Oct. 2014.
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin (Biography in Context)
Senator Edward Brooke
Senator Edward Brooke (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Edward William Brooke (Biography in Context)
Joseph “Joe” Overton /Overton House aka Villa Rosa
Villa Rosa – Overton Home (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Calmes, Jackie. “Revisiting Black History on Martha’s Vineyard.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 29 Aug. 2010. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (Biography in Context)
Shearer Cottage
Shearer Cottage (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Shearer Cottage – Family Owned and Operated with Pride since 1903.
Joe Louis
Joe Louis (Biography in Context)
Harry Burleigh
Harry Thacker Burleigh (Biography in Context)
Cottagers Organization
Tankard Family
Carrie & George Tankard (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
John Saunders and the Pulpit Rock
John Saunders (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Rebecca Martin / Eastville Cemetery
Eastville Cemetery (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
William A. Martin
William Martin (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
William Martin House (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org) captmartinanniversary
“Passed Their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.” Vineyard Gazette [Edgartown, MA] 11 July 1907: 2. Microfilm.
(Thanks to Gabby Wilbur (MVRHS ’19) for locating this!)
Dorothy West, Harlem Renaissance Writer
Dorothy West (Biography in Context)
Dorothy West House (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Dorothy West (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Reverand Oscar Denniston / Bradley Memorial Church
Brannen, Peter. “Denniston House Demolition Blocked by Historic Commission.” The Vineyard Gazette. The Vineyard Gazette, 9 Dec. 2010. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
Perry-Henry, Laurie. “Bradley Square :: NAACP of Martha’s Vineyard.” NAACP of Martha’s Vineyard. NAACP of Martha’s Vineyard, 10 July 2011. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
Lee, Linsey. “Son of Pastor Recalls Bradley Church, and Era of Prejudice.”The Vineyard Gazette. N.p., 12 Feb. 2010. Web. 05 Oct. 2014.
Bradley Church (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Barber William H. Hammond
Barber Hammond (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
Founders of the MVNAACP
MV NAACP (mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org)
The World’s Fairs in the USA, 1876 – 1915
Panama Pacific International Exposition (source: Library of Congress)
Background
“World’s fair .” Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2014. Web. 28 Sep. 2014.
Great overview and place to start.
Rydell, Robert W. “World’s Fairs.” Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 8. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003. 558-560. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
Great overview and place to start.
Time Explains: How the World of Tomorrow Became a Thing of the Past
Time Magazine article and video from April 2014 about the disappearance of the World’s Fair from the United States (we haven’t had one since 1984).
ExpoMuseum
Official Museum of the World’s Fairs
Search & Find out
<< Search U.S. History in Context to find images, articles, and more from published sources
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<< Over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
1876 US Centennial Exhibition: Philadelphia
Centennial Exhibition Articles (U.S. History in Context)
Centennial Exhibition (Library of Congress)
1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition: New Orleans
Cotton Centennial (Library of Congress)
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Columbian Exposition (U.S. History in Context)
Columbian Exposition (Library of Congress)
1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition and Indian Congress: Omaha
Omaha Exposition (U.S. History in Context)
Omaha Exposition (Library of Congress)
1901 Pan-American Exposition: Buffalo
Pan-American Exposition (U.S. History in Context)
Pan-American Exposition (Library of Congress)
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition – St. Louis World’s Fair
St. Louis World’s Fair (Library of Congress)
St. Louis World’s Fair (U.S. History in Context)
1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition
Jamestown Exposition (Library of Congress)
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (U.S. History in Context)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (Library of Congress)
Reference
“The World’s Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide.” Earth Station Nine. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2014.
Includes a bulleted list of trivia and more from each fair.
Make it
Make awesome presentations
Image Spike let you add text as well as links to sound recordings and videos to images.
Create your own info-graphics. You can choose from existing templates or create your own from scratch.
Easy way to make a video presentation!
Embed your voice and more in a visual presentation
Become an expert on your topic
Are you interested in something? Maybe you think you know a little about it already? Wouldn’t it be cool to know more? Maybe you can take it a step further and become an expert yourself.
The question is, where do you start? Anyone can Google it, or read some background about it on Wikipedia. What will make you stand out?
Background Info: Finding an area to focus on and a question to answer
The Virtual Reference Library is a great place to start. It gives you articles about topics written by experts themselves. Anytime an expert writes about their topic they will mention the big issues and controversies surrounding it. There is where you’ll find an interesting question to answer and something you can look into investigating yourself.
Dig deeper
Questia School is another virtual library, but the difference is it gives you access to 80,000 full-length, published books that you won’t find otherwise online. So, it gives you more depth on your topic. See Mr. McGrath for help logging in, and using Questia School to your advantage.
Books in the MVRHS Library: Use the blue search bar above (check “books”) to see if we have something you can use.
Keep Going
As a citizen of the state of Massachusetts, you have access to all of the electronic resources in the Boston Public Library. In depth sources including JStor give you access to thousands of published sources. To access them, you’ll need a BPL Library card number. If you don’t have one, you can get it for free, practically instantly, by visiting their ecard sign-up page.
Organize your sources
Login to Easybib using your MVRHS Google Docs account to access their awesome note-taking and expanded citing features. It literally makes it easier.
And Finally….Ask for help. Spread the word!
Ask about your topic. After all, it’s something you’re interested in learning about, right? Tell people what you know, and ask for help. You’ll be surprised what you’ll learn just by asking.
Literary criticism to go
Literature Resource Center
Questia School provides “access to over 78,000 cross-curricular books from 1,000 of the world’s leading publishers, student tools including highlighting, note taking, bookmarks and project folders, and automatically generated citations and bibliographies in MLA, APA or Chicago format.”
Free on the Web
Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library) It’s not easy finding good sources online for free. Here’s a great guide from the Internet Public Library to websites by subject and time period.