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The Hulbert Taft, Jr. Library

History of Sport in America: 21st Century Issues: Home

 

Welcome to your course guide for researching topics relating to

AMERICAN SPORTS IN 21st CENTURY

 
The resources below are reliable, trustworthy sources of information provided to you by the library. 

NOTE: Our electronic resources are available to you both on and off campus.

 

ONLINE DATABASES

These databases primarily contain magazine, journal, and newspaper articles:
Resource Allows NoodleTools Export Citations can be exported from this source to NoodleTools.
Contains Primary Sources This source contains Primary Sources.

 

If you have any questions, see
Mr. Padgett, Ms. Taylor, or Mr. Previti
OR email us at 
spadgett@taftschool.org  
  taylorp@taftschool.org
rpreviti@taftschool.org
We're here to help!

 

 

These reference databases also contain background information, viewpoint articles, graphics, and other resources:

Search the Internet With Sweetsearch

ABOUT IMAGES

You may use images from any of the databases on this page AND you must cite them.
Preferably you will cite an image at the bottom of the slide on which it appears.

Find Images Using Google

Google Images 

On your image search results page:

  • Click on Tools.
  • Click on Usage Rights and choose Creative Commons Licenses which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.
  • For a Google Slide presentation, click on Size and prefer Large so you get a clear, sharp image for your slide.

Look for this Creative Commons icon

Best Practices for Attribution with examples; from Creative Commons.