Print Resources ~ Physical and digital books prepared by subject-area experts presenting primary and secondary source information as well as statistics, images, facts, and/or narrative.
Print resources available at Maine South High School may be found by searching the Online Catalog
To locate print sources (both books and journals) from other libraries, use
- Key in a search term
- Select Books or Articles Tab (optional)
- Press Enter key or Search Everything
- Review search results and select an item
- Change Location information (to 60068) and press GO
- Results list will now identify local libraries owning the item you requested
~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Articles most useful for review of basic reference content
Databases ~ Special collections of information prepared by subject-area experts available digitally in a variety of formats. Invisible to search engines such as Google.
~ Magazine and journal articles from fifteen databases
- Select "List All Databases"
- Check ECO and WilsonSelectPlus; click Select
- Key in a search term
- Select and article or refine your search
~ Historical newspapers including The Chicago Daily (Tribune), The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and The New York Times from the 1850s to the present.
~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources
- Reference Tab ~ Review of basic content; Viewpoint essays; Court case overviews: case description, outcome, analysis and impact
- Periodicals Tab ~ Essays and commentary; check your sources: popular magazines are mixed in with scholarly journals
- Primary Sources Tab ~ Quick, full-text access to documents such the Federalist papers, Bill of Rights, and various speeches.
~ Full-text articles from a wide range of scholarly journals. Username: maineeast
Password: demons
~ Viewpoint, reference, magazine and newspaper articles on social and political issues.
- Reference Tab ~ Court case overviews: case description, outcome, analysis and impact
~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources
- Reference Tab ~ articles most useful for review of basic content
- Academic Journals Tab ~ Scholarly articles from journals such as Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the Stanford Law Review
- Primary Sources Tab ~ Quick, full-text access to documents such the Federalist papers, Bill of Rights, and various speeches.
Mr. Trenkle's Web Page ~ Extensive links, documents, cases, and other support
~ USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services.
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School ~ "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
- Center for Civic Education ~ We the People texts and extensive resources.
- Chronology of United States Historical Documents ~ From the University of Oklahoma Law School
- Documents for the Study of American History ~ Maps, journals, letters, speeches, etc. of American History.
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe ~ Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
- Making of America (MOA) - Digital Library of Primary Sources ~ "Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints." Cornell University
- The National Archives ~ "The National Archives is the U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials and makes them available for research." The archives contain materials such as "firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources."
- Supreme Court Historical Society
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Law Schools News Brief
N.
Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center,
Park Ridge, IL
Created: 3/11/09 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org