Your assignment asks you to build a timeline as a first step in your independent research. Building a timeline can also prove helpful for any research project, as it serves as a reference and sets boundaries to your project. You can likely find a detailed chronology on the web or in a library Reference work. You can also mix timelines or add events that you uncover in your own reading.
On the web you will find timelines and chronologies complied by museums, documentary/television productions, educational and historic organizations.
You might do the following Google Search:
TOPIC + TIMELINE
TOPIC + CHRONOLOGY
e.g. Women's History Timeline; 20th Century Student Protest Chronology, Works Project Administration Chronology
Remember to verify information from websites.
American Decades Series by
American Decades from 1900-1990s. Find Primary and Secondary sources by decade.
American Reformers, Second Edition / H. W. Wilson (Editor)
American Reformers brings together informative biographies of 600 men and women who were the principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times. Coverage includes the chief facts of each subject's life, and an assessment of their significance to the general reform movement in this country.
This Is Who We Were: in The 1940s (1940-1949) by
Explores American life in the 1940s; chronologies of topics.
African American Eras Library by
For a student friendly reference on African American history and culture, refer to the new UXL family patterned after Gales award-winning American Decades series. African American Eras sets are interdisciplinary sources for middle and high school students as well as teachers, librarians, and the general patron who want the single source convenience provided by the Decades-style subject chapters covering arts, medicine and health, education, religion, government and politics, law, trade and more. Each four-volume set covers a different era of importance to African American culture, and each chapter covers the events, lifestyles, social history, and key figures unique to that time. Included will be the eyewitness accounts and primary documents that make even long ago history so personal.
