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//Online Pathfinder created by Mrs. Baker Marlboro High School Media Center February 2009//
 * It Was a Very Good (?) Year**

This wiki has been created to help you locate quality resources on the year you are researching. Check out a number of websites as well as books to get an overall impression of what happened during your target time period. Explore famous people, music, world issues, great moments in sports, Supreme Court decisions, discoveries, innovations and inventions, fashion, etc. Decide on a focus; was it a good or bad year? Create your thesis and support it with valid evidence.

**Finding a Novel That Relates to Your Year**

The following websites list novels by the year in which they take place. Check our [|online HIP catalog] to see if we own the book. If we don't own the book and you definitely want to read it, see Mrs. Baker about borrowing a copy from another library for your use.

[|Historical Fiction Listed by Date] Be careful, some of these titles might be too young for you. Consult with Ms. Berkowitz to see if it's an appropriate reading level for this assignment. [|Historical Novels] Over 5000 historical novels listed by time and place. Choose a time period from the yellow menu on the left. [|InfoPlease Year by Year] will list important books published that year under the Entertainment section of each article.

[|SIRS Decades] Click the link to your decade at the top of the screen or type in a subject or keyword and sort results by date. For home use, ask a library staff member for the user name and password.
 * Databases**

[|20th Century by Decades] An excellent gateway site containing links to facts as well as multimedia. [|MacroHistory and World Report]Type in a year and get a clickable timeline of important events. Cool!! [|What's Old Is New Again] Visit this site to get a feel for what life was like during your particular time period. Search your decade in the frame at the bottom of the screen. [|Infoplease World History] Provides a chronology of worldwide historical events from ancient to modern times. Especially useful for getting a list of world events that happened during a particular year. Click the link in the blue box to access your particular time period, then select the proper decade or year. [|Yahoo's Directory of Major Events of the 20th Century] Search by topic or decade. [|Infoplease Year By Year] Here you will find year-by-year and decade-by-decade chronologies of the 20th century, as well as a 'Best and Worst of the Century' feature. Search by decade or year. [|dMarie Time Capsule; On This Day In History] Enter a specific date and create a scrapbook of popular history from that time. [|About.com: 20th Century History] Click on the decade for a detailed year-by-year timeline of that decade. [|HyperHistory Online] Important events in science, culture and politics.
 * Websites**