Pathfinders for Huckleberry Finn and Reconstruction
Library
Resources
Ø See: "How to Use an Encyclopedia"
http://www.fs.gov.za/Departments/SAC/Library/encyclopedia.htm
Huckleberry Finn/Mark Twain
Ø World Book Encyclopedia
"Twain, Mark (Productive years in Hartford)"
Ø Encyclopedia Britannica
" Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The"
"Twain, Mark, or Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Am. Writ.)"
Ø Mark Twain A to Z : the essential reference to his life and writings / Rasmussen, R. Kent.
REF 818 RAS
Ø The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and race in America / Jarnow, Jesse 813 JAR
Ø Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / 813 MAR
Ø Bloom's Guides : Mark Twain's the adventures of Huckleberry Finn / 813.4 BLO
Ø A pen warmed-up in hell : Mark Twain in protest / Twain, Mark. 818 TWA
Ø Mark Twain and his world / Kaplan, Justin. 818.409 KAP
Ø Mark Twain : a writer's life / Meltzer, Milton. 921 TWA
Ø The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / FIC TWA
Ø The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : with connections / Twain, Mark FIC TWA
Ø Mark Twain / SC TWA
Reconstruction
Ø World Book Encyclopedia
"Reconstruction (U.S. History)"
"African Americans (The first years of freedom)"
"Carpetbaggers"
"Scalawags"
"United States, History of the (Reconstruction)"
Ø Encyclopedia Britannica
"Reconstruction (U.S. Hist.)"
"black codes’ abolishment"
" carpetbaggers”
"Force Acts"
" Freedmen’s Bureau”
"scalawags"
"Union leagues”
Ø The road to freedom, 1815-1900/ McCague, James 301.45 MCC
Ø The Fifteenth Amendment : African-American men’s right to vote / Banfield, Susan
324.6 BAN
Ø The Thirteenth Amendment : ending slavery / Schleichert, Elizabeth 342.73 SCH
Ø The encyclopedia of African-American heritage / Altman, Susan 973.0496 ALT
Ø "Bury me not in a land of slaves" : African-Americans in the time of Reconstruction / Hansen, Joyce 973.0496 HAN
Ø The geography of hope : Black exodus from the South after Reconstruction / Haskins, James 973.0496 HAS
Ø Freedom's river : the African-American contribution to democracy / Steele, James
973.0496 STE
Ø Worth fighting for : a history of the Negro in the United States during the Civil War/ McCarthy, Agnes 973.7415 MAC
Ø Reconstruction and reform / Hakim, Joy 973.8 HAK
Ø Reconstruction: the great experiment / Trelease, Allen W. 973.8 TRE
Ø This wounded land : the era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877/ Werstein, Irving 973.8 WER
Ø The Union restored: 1861-1876 / Williams, T. Harry 973.8 WIL
Ø Reconstruction following the Civil War in American history / Ziff, Marsha 973.8 ZIF
Ø The Reconstruction court, 1864-1888 / Fridlington, Robert REF 347.732 FRI
Ø The encyclopedia of African-American heritage / Altman, Susan REF 973 ALT
Ø Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history / REF 973.0496 ENC V.1
Ø Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from 1619 to the present/ Hornsby, Alton REF 973.0496 HOR
Ø The Blacks in America, 1492-1977 : a chronology & fact book / Sloan, Irving J. REF 973.0496 SLO
Ø 1001 things everyone should know about African-American history / Stewart, Jeffrey C.
REF 973.0496 STE
Ø The Civil War and Reconstruction : an eyewitness history / Kirchberger, Joe H.
REF 973.7 KIR
Online
Resources
Databases
Ø NetTrekker http://school.nettrekker.com/subject/ follow the preset links, or type in your terms
Ø questia http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp use Boolean operators to refine your search
Ø World Book http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home use the advanced search to narrow
your results
Huck Finn/Mark Twain
Ø “Authors Corner: Mark Twain’s America” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/authors_corner/jan-june97/fishkin_4-11.html interview with author Shelley Fisher Fishkin from PBS’s Online NewsHour
Ø “Library of Congress : American Memory Collection” http://memory.loc.gov/ use search term: “black laws”
Ø “Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews” from the University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/huckfinn.html
Ø “Mark Twain in His Time” from the University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Ø “The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)” from the Revolution to Reconstruction Website http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/LIT/clemens.htm
Reconstruction
Ø “A Biography of America : Reconstruction” from PBS
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog12/index.html
Ø “End of Reconstruction” from the Revolution to Reconstruction Website
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch6_p14.htm
Ø “HarpWeek Presents : Toward Racial Equality” Harper's Weekly editorials published 1857 to 1874
http://www.blackhistory.harpweek.com/
Ø “Proclamation Declaring The Insurrection At An End, 1866” from the Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1866endfocivilwar.html
Ø “Radical Reconstruction” from the Revolution to Reconstruction Website
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch6_p13.htm
Ø “Reconstruction” from a SCUSD middle school
http://schools.scusd.edu/fernbacon/FBLibrary/Reconstruction.htm
Ø “Reconstruction : the Second Civil War” video or transcript from PBS’s American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
Ø “Reconstruction and its Aftermath” from LOC American Memory Collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html
Ø “U.S. History : Reconstruction” from the Best of History Website
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_Reconstruction.shtml
Ø “Valley of the Shadow : Two Communities in the American Civil War : the Aftermath” http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/reference3.html from the Virginia Center for Digital History
Writing Resources:
Citation Style Guides
http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_Help/Citation_Style_Guides/default.asp
Prepared for Ms. Stork & Ms. Cornelius February 25, 2008, by JFK librarian, Claudia Leavitt.