The Crucible:
Prejudice Throughout History


The following resources will help you in your exploration of prejudice.

 Online Databases

  Discovering Collection
Covers all core subject areas, providing reference, primary sources, creative works and video and audio clips and more.
Hint: scroll to bottom left and select Literature
     

  Expanded Academic ASAP - Search multiple formats of academic works such as: journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and more
Hint: select Advanced Search to enter multiple keywords.
     

LitFinder for Schools
LitFinder for Schools includes full-text poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches, including 126,500 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts


 Internet Sites

The Holocaust
Holocaust / Genocide Project: Links to Other Sites: http://www.iearn.org/hgp/other-sites.html

Remember.com - Cybrary of the Holocaust: http://www.remember.org/index.html#Top

Remembering the Holocaust: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~aragorn/holocaus.htm

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/

McCarthyism
The Alger Hiss Story - Search for the Truth: The McCarthy Period: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/barristr.html

Deterring Speech - When is it McCarthyism?  When is it Proper?: http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/mccarthyism.pdf

Documents in American History II: Communist Control Act of 1954: http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1950s/Communist_54.html

Reference.com - McCarthyism: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/McCarthyism

9/11 Aftermath: Racial Profiling
ACLU - Sanctioned Bias: Racial Profiling Since 9/11: www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/racial%20profiling%20report.pdf

Amnesty International - Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, National Security and Human Rights in the United States: http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/report/index.html

GSC Newsletter - In Times of Trouble: The Problem of Racial Profiling: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/hajjar.page

PBS - Caught in the Crossfire: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/caughtinthecrossfire/story.html


If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "racial profiling", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites about the racial profiling as opposed to all of the sites containing the word racial plus all of the sites containing the word profiling.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about a the racial profiling, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma, followed by a space and you other search term.  For instance; if I wanted to find out about racial profiling in response to the terrorist attack on 9/11, I would enter the following:
     

     "racial profiling", 9/11, terrorist, attack
     

  5. Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     
  6. Be sure to critically evaluate Internet sources.  UC Berkley Library's Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask is an excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the following areas:
  7. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on the Internet, online databases, or print material, you must cite every resource you used.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
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