TCORE 123 (Quizar): Starting Points
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Mt. Tacoma (or Mt. Rainier), Tacoma, Wash." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1898 - 1931.
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These sources provide background information or a "birds eye view" of a topic, person, or place. These resources are written and curated by scholars and historians, rather than crowd-sourced like Wikipedia.
- Historylink.orgAn authoritative online encyclopedia dedicated to Washington state history. Many of the articles--written by scholars, journalists, teachers, and students--are originals prepared for the website.
- Black PastBlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.
Example People's Guides
A People's Guide to Los Angeles by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781280781438Publication Date: 2012-12-07"A People s Guide to Los Angeles "offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A. s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape."
- A People's Guide
A People’s Guide is a popular geography project that shows how power manifests in cities and other places. By focusing on vernacular landscapes – everyday places – we show how various forms of power, including domination, exploitation and resistance, not only produce inequalities, but shape the world around us.