The resources located on this page are a guide to help get the research process started. These resources are legitimate, authoritative and the types of resources your instructor, Dr. Dawn Herd-Clark, would like you to use for your presentation assignment. This page focuses on Modern American History, specifically, events, people, places in United States history since 1865.
Please contact your Plant City campus librarian if you need any assistance with finding appropriate sources for this assignment.
Primary sources are original documents or artifacts created during the time under study. Historians rely on primary sources to gain insight into the known past, and to provide substantiating evidence and support for their interpretations. The secondary source is the article or book (monograph) written by the historian.
Examples of Primary Sources include:
HCC Libraries have two video formats now available for student use for history topics: DVDs and Streaming.
The HCC Plant City campus library have some DVDs on historical topics available for check-out. The loan period for DVDs is 7 days.
See the box below for streaming video information. For access, you need to be logged into the HCC Libraries Online system.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
The following books are just an example of some of the resources that are available in the HCC Plant City campus library. For an exhaustive list of sources, please use the HCC Libraries Online Catalog.
These databases are additional history related databases where you can find many types of sources to include videos, images, audio clips, articles, etc.
The following websites provide credible sources in the format of articles, images and primary sources documents. Unless deemed copyright free and in the public domain, the information used from these sources must be cited.