Prohibition Era: Database Research

Objectives: By the end of this activity, students will research two terms about the Prohibition era - one key figure of the Prohibition and  one term/event/place/etc. Research the two topics through the following library databases: 

Some notes about database research: 

• You can save articles directly to your Google Drive from History Reference Center, US History-in-Context, and Biography-in-Context
• You can highlight and take notes directly on articles in the two in-Context databases. Your highlights/notes will transfer to your copies in Google Drive. 
• Britannica and SIRs Discoverer are good databases to find very general information, but will not go too in-depth. 
• You will be permitted to do web research on the second day, but we ask that you first steer clear of the websites and use these databases to begin. 
• Do not forget to cite as you go. There is nothing more annoying that going back through databases to find articles you have already used but forgot to cite!