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The following resources will help you in your search for information on the Black Panthers of Hartford, CT, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Newsies Strike of 1899.

 Print Resources

Murder in the Model City, by Paul Bass, Douglas W. Rae, Douglas W. Rae
May 20, 1969: Four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party trudge through woods along the swampy edges of the Coginchaug River outside of New Haven, Connecticut. Gunshots scatter the silence. Three men emerge from the woods. Soon, two are in police custody. One is fleeing across the country." "Nine Panthers would eventually be tried with crimes committed that night, including National Chairman Bobby Seale who was extradited from California with the aide of Panther nemesis Governor Ronald Reagan. Activists of all denominations descended on the small New England city - whose progressive civic programs had earned it the moniker of America's "model city" - and the campus of Yale University.

Thirteen Days / Ninety Miles: The Cuban Missile Crisis, by Norman H. Finkelstein (973.922 F)
In October of 1962, U.S. jetfighters took off from bases in Florida and headed south on airborne alert. Should Cuba decide to react militarily, they were prepared to respond with force. After John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s fateful seventeen-minute address, the entire country was about to become involved in the most dangerous event the world had ever experienced.
 
The Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962, by Catherine Hester Gox (973.922)
Examines the events preceding, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles there.

 Online Databases

Associated Press Photo Archive
AP photographs and graphics from the mid-1800s to the present.

Discovering Collection
Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips.
 

EBSCO Host - History Reference Center Access newspaper and magazine articles from the past (Select Timeline U.S. History (1800 - 1860). Select Advanced Search to enter multiple keywords.
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

Black Panthers of Hartford - 1960 Black Panthers and the Police: A Pattern of Genocide?: http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/panthers2.htm

Hartford Web Publishinc - World History Archives - The History of the Black Panthers: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/index-be.html

NPR 35th Anniversary of the Black Panther Movement (59 min. audio clip) : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1128093

WTIC - News Hartford - Book Recalls New Haven Black Panthers Trial: http://www.wtic.com/pages/178612.php?
 
Cuban Missile Crisis BBC News - John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/kennedy_cuban_missile_01.shtml

Cuban Missile Crisis - An Overview of the Conflict: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html

The Cuban Missile Crisis - October 18-29, 1962 (audio clips): http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/

Library of Congress - Revelations fro the Russian Archives: Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html

National Security Archive - Cuban Missile Crisis - Declassified Documents: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/index.htm
 
Newsies Strike of 1899 Digital History - The Progressive Era - Newsies: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=166

A History of Newsboys in America: http://www.peachtree-online.com/printer/newsboys.htm

Kids On Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Google Books ebook - see Chapter 2) http://books.google.com/books?id=Bg3AsIODneEC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=%22newsies+
strike%22+1899&source=web&ots=cNo1S6KmGz&sig=yCG-h6-fpnRr7n12u3IrtlhHcsg#PPP1,M1

Newsies - The Newsboys of the Past: http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/newsboys.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: "Cuban missile crisis", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites about the Cuban missile crisis as opposed to all of the sites containing the word Cuban plus all of the sites containing the word missile plus all of the sites containing the word crisis.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about a the Cuban missile crisis, 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 the causes and consequences of the Cuban missile crisis, I would enter the following:
     

    "Cuban missile crisis", causes, consequences
     

  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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