History Day @ Your Library ● 11/4/09Jennifer Hootman ● Minitex Reference Services Coordinator ●

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Reference Content

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition*: • Middle School *

• Discovering Collection• Junior Reference

Collection• Science Reference

Center*• Student Research Center *

Periodical Content

• Middle Search Plus*• Student Research Center *

• General Science Collection*

• InfoTrac Junior Edition• Student Resource Center

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Reference Content

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition*:

• High School & Academic Ed.* • Science Reference

Center*• Student Research Center*

• Discovering Collection

Periodical Content

• Academic Search Premier• Expanded Academic ASAP*• General Science Collection*• InfoTrac Student Edition

• Student Resource Center Gold *• MAS Ultra – Student Edition

• Student Research Center* • ProQuest Newsstand Comp.• Historical Minneapolis

Tribune • Consumer Health Complete

Innovation• What is it about the topic that is new and different,

and is also the result of human ideas or actions?• What was the innovation called?• When was it adopted?• Who was involved – who were the innovators who

created, designed, or implemented the innovation?• What did the innovation look like, how did it work,

and what previous ideas, objects, actions or institutions did it replace?

• What benefits did it provide, and to whom? • How was it received?

In History – or – Historical Context• Exploring “why?” and “so what?”• Why was the innovation important or

significant, and what was its legacy?• Why did the innovation happen when and

where it did?• What were the economic, political, social,

technological, cultural, religious, or other circumstances prior to the innovation that caused or contributed to the development of the innovation?

In History – Effects/Results of Innovation• How did people react initially, in the short term, and

over the longer term, to the new idea, arrangement, organization, or technology Short Term – impact of the innovation Longer – change over time brought about by the

innovation• What were the personal ramifications for the

innovator?• How soon did people adopt or accept the innovation –

or did they reject it?• Did the innovation just influence people locally, or did

its influences extend nationally or to other countries, and in what ways did the influences appear?

• Has the innovation been supplanted by other innovations?

For Starters

Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition: High School & Academic• Images, Videos, Articles,

Timelines, Maps, Best Web Sites

Discovering Collection• Topic/Event Overviews, Images,

Broadcast Transcripts Academic Search Premier

• Articles Expanded Academic ASAP

• Articles

Questions

• What is it about the topic that is new and different, and is also the result of human ideas or actions?

• What was the innovation called?• When was it adopted?• Who was involved – who were

the innovators who created, designed, or implemented the innovation?

• What did the innovation look like, how did it work, and what previous ideas, objects, actions or institutions did it replace?

• What benefits did it provide, and to whom?

• How was it received?

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica

Discovering Collection

Dobrow, Marty, and Jamie Kageleiry "An uncommon maxim." Yankee 58.6 (1994): 21. [Reports on the life of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. Father of 300 inventions; Ambition; Congenital restlessness; History; Invention of the world's first efficient machine gun.]

Academic Search Premier & Expanded

Academic ASAP

Ide, Karolyn "1862." American Heritage 38.7 (1987): 10. [Discusses the Gatling gun, invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in 1862. Biographical information on the inventor, who mostly made agricultural products; Belief of Gatling that the gun would reduce the number of soldiers needed and, in turn, cut down on the number of deaths; Invention of the maxim gun which rendered the Gatling obsolete.]

Allen, Frederick. "The new warfare and old truths: how our technologies are still our allies." Knowledge Technology & Policy 16.1 (2003): 14-17. [The invention of the first truly automatic machine gun and the invention of new deadly weapons are described. These weapons are made to make killing radically easier.]

For Starters

Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition: High School & Academic• Images, Videos, Articles,

Timelines, Maps, Best Web Sites

Discovering Collection• Topic/Event Overviews,

Images, Broadcast Transcripts Academic Search Premier

• Articles Expanded Academic ASAP

• Articles

Questions

• How did people react initially, in the short term, and over the longer term, to the new idea, arrangement, organization, or technology

• What were the personal ramifications for the innovator?

• How soon did people adopt or accept the innovation – or did they reject it?

• Did the innovation just influence people locally, or did its influences extend nationally or to other countries, and in what ways did the influences appear?

• Has the innovation been supplanted by other innovations?

Reconstruction / Post Civil War

Discovering Collection

Gilded Age/Big Business & Enterprise

Discovering Collection

Trust Busting,Expansion, &Progressivism

Discovering Collection

World War I

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Did the innovation just influence people locally, or did its influences extend nationally or to other countries, and in what ways did the influences appear?

• Has the innovation been supplanted by other innovations?

Discovering Collection

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