2. • Find at least one on your historical
topic.
• Use your keywords to locate books on
the online card catalog.
• Do a subject search.

3. • Find at least two American history reference
books on your historical topic.
• Do a subject search for “encyclopedias and
dictionaries” or your other broad keywords to
help you find reference books in the media
center.

4. • Doing a subject search for your narrow
keywords will bring up magazines in the list of
sources. Magazines have a newspaper icon next
to the title.

5. • Choose one MeL database linked on the pathfinder to
use to find information on your topic.

6. • Find at least one web site on your historical
topic. Keep in mind the following:
1. It can be a web site found on the
American History Pathfinder.
2. Or you can do a Google search
using NES!