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Animal Farm and Revolution
Library Materials

There is bound to be some good info on your revolution on the library shelves.  Don't get too specific-- for this assignment a general reference source such as an encyclopedia article will suffice, but you may want to try something like the following:

REF 904 HIS History in Dispute:  The American Revolution, 1763-1789
REF 909.08 HIS  History of the Modern World (a series which will cover various revolutions)
REF 909.08 JOS World Eras (a series which will cover various revolutions)
REF 973.3 ENC The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America
 


 

Databases

Library databases are your guarantee of quality info written by scholars and people who check facts.  Use the databases the library pays for and provides.  This is what you will be doing in college for an A grade, so get in the habit now.  Remember the username and password if you are accessing these from outside of school.


Web Sites

Requires school password off-campus


Sometimes when you just use a general search engine like Google you get mediocre and questionable web sites.  Here are some web sites I found using Librarians' Internet Index.  Try a keyword search using the NetTrekker and Lii.org directories above to see if there are some quality web sites on your revolution.

Liberty! The American Revolution
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary series "about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation." Features a timeline (from 1760, when George III ascended the throne, through 1791), details about defining events (such as the Boston Tea Party, 1773, and the Declaration of Independence, 1776), material about daily life and the military in the Colonies, and more.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

 

The Story of the Revolution
Short history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution in which Muslim fundamentalists, under the leadership of the Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Includes brief biographies of some of the participants (Bakhtiar Shahpour, Bani-Sadr, Bazargan, and others) as well as audio clips (in Farsi with English transcripts) of comments made by them on the BBC Persian Service program.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/revolution/

 

Cornell University Library: French Revolution
This site describes the French Revolution materials at the Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. "The collection is strongest in the areas of economy and finance, the Revolutionary government, and Revolutionary culture, with unusual strength in popular culture." Digitized sample materials are available for three of the four collections described on this site.
URL: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/frenchrev.html

 

Selected Internet Resources: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The year 2006 "marks the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This page provides [annotated] links to sites commemorating the event or providing resources for research." Most links are available in English; a few (noted on site) are only in Hungarian. From the Library of Congress Area Studies European Division.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/hungary/resources/hu-1956.html

 

Morning Sun: A Film and Website About the Cultural Revolution
This website "reflect[s] on the origins and history of the [Chinese] Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976)." Features the opportunity to "experience the sights and sounds of Chinese culture in the 1960s, through radio, TV, and movies," material about the Red guards, images of Mao buttons and other artifacts, and much more. In English and Chinese. A presentation of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA).
URL: http://www.morningsun.org/