Biographical Research
Prepared for Ms. Feminella
March 17, 2014
Print:
See the Resource Lists in the MTHS Catalog: Destiny (The MTHS Catalog is located
on the Media Center’s Website).
MLA Formatting Information
1) Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. Long Island University’s
2) C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
EDS, Individual Databases AND Reference eBooks
MTHS Media Center Website : Provides access to online research resources
(Located on the Media Center’s RESEARCH PAGE - To use any of these resources,
from Home, you will need the Remote Access Codes)
Databases:
ABC-CLIO : Includes: World History (Modern), American History, The Latino
American Experience: is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of
U.S. Latinos, The African American Experience: is a full-text digital resource
exploring the history and culture of African Americans.
AP Images (Photographic Resource)
EbscoHost: Provides more than 23 full-text periodical databases as well as 10 other
separate exclusive databases (i.e. EbscoHost Web (periodicals); Points of View;
Literature Reference Center; Student Research Center; Novelist, History Reference
Center and the Biography Collection, etc.).
Facts On File - InfoBase Publishing: Includes databases on: World History-Modern,
World History-Ancient and Medieval, American History, African-American History,
Curriculum Resource Center, American Women's History, American Indian History,
Literature, Career Guidance, World Geography and Culture, Bloom's Literary
Reference, Health Reference, Science, Today's Science, Issues and Controversies).
JSTOR: A Digital Archive that provides full-text searches of digitized back issues
of over one thousand journals, dating back to 1665 for some. Can be searched by
discipline, title or publisher.
Proquest's SIRS Knowledge Source
Includes Renaissance, Researcher and Web Select.
Reference eBooks:
ABC-CLIO eBooks
Ebsco's eBook Subscription: Includes over 100,000 eBooks.
Gale Virtual Reference E-Library - Includes over 600 multi-volume specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research and 24/7 access.
InfoBase Learning eBooks
Marshall Cavendish eBooks
Salem Press eBooks: Salem History, Salem Health, Salem Science, Salem
Literature.
General Website:
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Specific Websites:
Mother Teresa ( Poverty, sacrifice, children, religion, sainthood,
sisterhood/nunnery, social injustice . . . )
Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center
http://www.motherteresa.org/layout.html
Mother Teresa – Biographical – Nobelprize.org
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html
Mother Teresa Quotes
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/838305.Mother_Teresa
Mother Teresa Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/mother-teresa-9504160
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), biography
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_madreteresa_en.html
The Missionaries of Charity
http://www.has.vcu.edu/wrs/profiles/MissionariesOfCharity.htm
Does Mother Teresa Matter?
https://www.up.edu/portlandmag/2005_spring/mother/mother4.html
Gandhi (Nonviolent Resistance, Freedom, Oppression, Colonialism,
Imperialism, Britain . . . )
Asian Revolutions in the Twentieth Century
Great Links.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/exeas/asian-revolutions/leaders-mohandas-gandhilinks.html#biographiesandprofiles
Obama Honors Mahatma Gandhi
http://blogs.america.gov/obama/2009/10/02/obama-honors-mahatma-gandhi/
Gandhi - Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/gandhi.htm
BBC – History - Mohandas Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/themes/peace/gandhi/
Colonial India, Gandhi and Eventual Independence
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/themes/indiagandhi.html
Martin Luther King (Civil Rights, passive resistance, Jim Crow laws,
segregation . . . )
Americans Celebrate Achievements of Martin Luther King Jr.
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2006/01/20060109162734jmnamdeirf
0.3977777.html#axzz2vxLAPnDX
Timeline of Events in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Life
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html
The King Center
http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king
American National Biography
http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00382.html?from=../15/1501112.html&from_nm=Mays%2C%20Benjamin%20Elijah
Martin Luther King Jr. – Biographical - Nobelprize.org
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_king_1.html
The Matin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
http://seattletimes.com/special/mlk/
Nelson Mandela (Apartheid, South Africa, Rebellion, President . . . )
Biography – Nelson Mandela Foundation
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/people/nelson-mandela-9397017
Nelson Mandela - Biographical - Nobelprize.org
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html
History.com
http://www.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela
Nelson Mandela’s Impact
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/10085352/nelson-mandela-impact-world-sports
The Long Walk Is Over – The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2013/12/nelson-mandela
Nelson Mandela’s Speeches
http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=search&opt=basic
Nelson Mandela: His Most Powerful Speech
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nelson-mandela/10139739/NelsonMandela-the-orator-his-most-powerful-speeches.html
BBC: Nelson Mandela
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23043987
The Nelson Mandela (Rivonia) Trial: An Account
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mandela/mandelaaccount.html
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: Nelson Mandela’s Legacy
http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articledetails.aspx?aid=69
Anne Frank (Writer, holocaust, victim, Amsterdam, adolescent,
Jewish, concentration camps, World War II . . .)
Anne Frank The Writer: An Unfinished Story
http://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/anne-frank/htmlsite/
Anne Frank: United States Holocaust Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005210
Anne Frank – Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/people/anne-frank-9300892
Anne Frank: The Face of the Holocaust
http://www.dw.de/anne-frank-the-face-of-the-holocaust/a-1233338
Who Is Anne? The Anne Frank Center – U.S.A.
http://annefrank.com/about-anne-frank/who-is-anne/
Anne Frank: Her Historical Importance
http://history1900s.about.com/od/annefrank/p/AnneFrank.htm
World Holocaust Forum: The Holocaust In Faces: Anne Frank Diary
http://www.worldholocaustforum.org/eng/persons/2/
Anne Frank – World War II – History
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/anne-frank
Adolf Hitler (Nazi, Germany, World War II, Third Reich, Final
Solution, Gestapo, SS, Concentration Camps, Fascist Dictator, AntiSemitic . . . )
Adolf Hitler
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html
Adolf Hitler
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html
Adolf Hitler Early Years (1889-1913)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007430
Nazi Propaganda
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm
German Propaganda Archive: Facts and Lies about Hitler
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/tatsachenundluegen.htm
Hitler Comes To Power
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
The Nuremberg Laws
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/winter/nuremberg.html
The Life of the Fuhrer
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pimpfhitler.htm
Adolf Hitler’s Rise To Power
http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/hitler.html
The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/fatalattraction.html
SS Police State
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007675
The Gestapo and German Society
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic862080.files/GellatelyGestapo%20and%20German%20Society.pdf
The Final Solution
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007704
The Third Reich
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007331
Joseph Stalin (Russia, Communist Dictator, Collectivization,
Industrialization, Iron Curtain, Gulag, Labor Camps, Famine . . .)
Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/stalin.html
The Yalta Conference
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/yalta.html
Yalta Conference, 1945
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
The Potsdam Conference, 1945
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf
Joseph Stalin: Commanding Heights
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/prof_josephstalin.html
Joseph Stalin
http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723
Modern History Sourcebook:
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953):
Industrialization of the Country, 1928
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1928stalin.html
Internal Workings of the Soviet Union
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intn.html
Collectivism and Industrialization
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/coll.html
A Brief Research on 1936 Soviet Constitution Under Joseph Stalin
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=mac
review
Stalin killed millions. A Stanford historian answers the question, was it genocide?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/september/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310.html
Osama bin Laden (Terrorism, 911, Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda ,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Islam, Jihad . . . )
Osama bin Laden Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/osama-bin-laden-37172
Timeline Osama bin Laden, Over the Years
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/osama.timeline/
Timeline: Osama bin Laden’s Life History
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9240249/Timeline-Osamabin-Ladens-life-history.html
The Life and Death of Osama bin Laden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/timeline-life-of-osama-binladen/
Osama bin Laden Fast Facts
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/world/osama-bin-laden-fast-facts/
PBS: FrontLine: A Biography of Osama Bin Laden?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/bio.html
History.com: Osama bin Laden – Facts and Summary
http://www.history.com/topics/osama-bin-laden
Bin Laden's theology a radical break with traditional Islam
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/bin-ladens-theology/
Profile: Osama bin Laden – Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-leaders/profile-osama-bin-laden/p9951
The Rise and Decline of Al Qaeda
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_gunaratna.htm
FBI – Osama bin Laden
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/usama-bin-laden
The Demise of Osama bin Laden
http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2011/0511_bin-laden/
Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/govdoc/qaida.cfm
17 bin Laden Documents: CombatingTerrorism
http://blogs.cornell.edu/mideastlibrarian/2012/05/10/17-bin-laden-documentscombating-terrorism-center-ctc/
PBS: Frontline: Timelin - Al Qaeda’s Global Context
http://0-www.pbs.org.librus.hccs.edu/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html
Sadaam Hussein (Kurds, Iran, Afghanistan, Dictator, Genocide,
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Kuwait, President George
H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush, Oil, General
Schwartzkopf, General Colin Powell,
The Emergence of Saddam Hussein
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field%28DOCID+iq0023%29
Saddam Hussein Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/saddam-hussein-9347918
Saddam Hussein
http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/saddam-hussein
Top 5 Crimes of Saddam Hussein
http://history1900s.about.com/od/saddamhussein/a/husseincrimes.htm
List of Saddam’s Crimes Is Long
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2761722
NPR: Saddam Hussein: Crimes and Punishment
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2761722
PBS: The Crimes of Saddam Hussein
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq501/events_index.html
How Saddam Hussein Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-108shrg97048/pdf/CHRG-108shrg97048.pdf
The Persian Gulf War (George H. W. Bush)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/bush-gulf-war/
The Gulf War 1991 (George H. W. Bush)
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/gulf-war
Iraq War: Background and Issues Overview
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/19854.pdf
The Iraq War – Part II: Was There ever even a Decision?
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB328/
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80/new/doc%2012/President%20
Bush%20Outlines%20Iraqi%20Threat.htm
The War on Iraq: Legal Issues
http://hrcr.law.columbia.edu/hottopics/Iraq.html
PBS Frontline: Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/arsenal.html
PBS Frontline: The Kurd’s Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
Did Saddam Hussein Gas the Kurds?
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1242
Fidel Castro (Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy,
Communist, Che Guevara, Cuban Dictator . . .)
History Channel: Fidel Castro
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro
BBC: Fidel Castro History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/fidel_castro
BBC: Cuban Timeline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1203355.stm
BBC: Cuba and the Cold War Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/cuba/index.shtml
BBC: Fidel Castro A Life In Pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12160798
Biography.com: Fidel Castro
http://www.biography.com/people/fidel-castro-9241487
Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/castrodictator.htm
History Today: Fidel Castro’s Invasion of Cuba
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/castrodictator.htm
Modern History Sourcebook: Fidel Castro; Second Declaration of Havana, 1962
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962castro.html
Kennedy and Castro: The Secret History
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/
Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
History.com: Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
Fidel Castro History Archive
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/history/cuba/archive/castro/index.htm
PBS: American Experience: Fidel Castro Timeline
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/history/cuba/archive/castro/index.htm