Friday, January 11, 2013

Sources for Research About the True Background of Your Historical Fiction Novels


A Boy at War:  

Between Shades of Gray 


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Boy Who Dared: 

Deadly 


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Elijah of Buxton


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Fever 1793



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Heroes Don't Run
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5232.htm

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Midwife's Apprentice

Learn more about the Middle Ages
click on the flags to enter
Diagnose and treat diseases as they did in the Middle Ages


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Moon Over Manifest
               Watch the video embedded in the World Book Site.
You can access World Book Online  by logging into http://onlinelibrary.uen.org




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Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
You can access World Book Online  by logging into http://onlinelibrary.uen.org


http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar222960&st=gettysburg
You can access World Book Online  by logging into http://onlinelibrary.uen.org

                                  Colonel Chamberlain: 
                                            Listen to the audio.

http://www.thecivilwaromnibus.com/articles/133/hired-soldiers-substitutes-during-the-civil-war/


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Numbering All the Bones



                                    Look through the photographs at 


                                  To read items written by the prisoners themselves, see

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Sacajawea





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Steal Away to Freedom
Examine the map.
You can access World Book Online  by logging into http://onlinelibrary.uen.org

http://www.freedomcenter.org/underground-railroad-0

Short Video:  http://video.pbs.org/video/2181630974

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Tucket's Travels
http://www.america101.us/trail/Allabout.html

                        Oregon Trail Timeline for the 1840's
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1840_1850.htm

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War Horse:

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The Watsons  Go to Birmingham


Watch the preview.

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Woods Runner
        Prisoners of War in the American Revolution