Social Studies-Olympics

North Hunterdon High School Media Center

OLYMPICS

Remember general encyclopedias are not to be included as sources, this includes Wikipedia.

Books:
May be found on the cart in the media center. No materials may be checked out until Friday at 2:25. The materials will have a two day checkout.

E-Books:
Electronic full-text books are available. Try:

ABC-Clio

http://www.historyreferenceonline.abc-clio.com/

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Use the Power Search it feature http://www.nhvweb.net/nhhs/MediaCenter/electronic/ebooks.htm

Marshall Cavendish
http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/mcdigitalhome

Electronic Databases:

ABC CLIO

Proquest Historical Newspapers

EBSCO
Click on EbscoHost Web
Click on MasterFile Premier.
(Remember to use Boolean searching and
always bullet full-text)

Go back to EBSCO Start Page
Click on Student Research Center
Do an Advanced Search.

Facts On File Online
American History Online
Modern World History Online

Opposing Viewpoints -- found in favorites
(Go to Advanced Search, put in your
search terms and search by keyword)

SIRS
(Go to Advanced Search, put in your search
terms

Olympic websites:

Official Website of the Olympic Movement

The Greek city-states and the religious festival

USA Olympic Team

Olympics Past and Present

Poynter Online

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

An Olympic Game Primer

From Ancient Olympia to Athens of 1896

Infoplease

Olympic History

1936 Olympics Summer

United States Holocaust
Museum

           1936 Berlin Olympics
           The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936
       Esther Wenzel Account of 1936 Olympics

1972 Olympics Summer

Eye on the Storm

Horror and Death at the Olympics

Jewish Virtual Museum

Munich Remembered

1976 Olympics Summer

Are the Olympics dead?

A Matter of Race

1976: African countries boycott Olympics

1976 Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

1980 : U.S. Olympic Committee Votes Against Moscow Games

U.S. Olympic Boycott, 1980
Olympic Boycotts

Olympic Timeline

2008 Summer Olympics

Taiwan opposition leader blasts Beijing
Olympics

Boycott of Beijing Olympics opening
receives chilly response in EU

Myanmar opposition calls on world to
boycott Beijing Olympics

China opposes US resolution politicizing
Olympics

NoodleBib6 (stop by the Media Center for password and log-in information) http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Be sure to select an MLA Advanced list so that you will be able to write annotations for each source.