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**Assignment:** Abolition in the Adirondacks Wiki
In pairs you will be responsible for researching one of the following topics and creating a class wiki on Abolition in the Adirondacks:
 * John Brown
 * Gerrit Smith
 * Timbuctoo
 * The Underground Railroad in Upstate New York

**Noodletools:** http://www.noodletools.com
Share your project with Ms. Crowley's project dropbox "Adirondack Abolitionist"

Books from our collections:
HOR || || **by** **Published:** 2011.
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN080509153X height="90"]] || 973.7
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN080509153X height="90"]] || 973.7

|| BROWN || || **by** **Published:** 2006, c2005.
 * AVAILABLE: 1 ** ||
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0375726152 height="90"]] || 921

|| BAN || || **by** **Published:** c1998.
 * AVAILABLE: 0 | ON LOAN: 1 ** ||
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0060168609 height="90"]] || FIC

|| BEN || || **by** **Published:** [1954]. ||
 * AVAILABLE: 1 ** ||
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBNzzzz height="90"]] || 811

CAL || || **by****Published:**c2004. ||
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0786416270 height="90"]] || 973.7

MCM || || **by****Published:**2001.
 * || [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0815628935 height="90"]] || 974


 * AVAILABLE: 1 ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

DON || || **by** **Published:** 1977.
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0916346269 height="90"]] || 974.753

Volume 1, "John Brown's Tract" chapter, Pages 88-135.

 * AVAILABLE: 2 ** ||

CAL || || **by** **Published:** c2004.
 * [[image:http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&vid=ISBN0786416270 height="90"]] || 973.7


 * AVAILABLE: 1 ** ||

Databases:
You can log into almost ALL databases by going to the Library home page and clicking on the "Single Login" link or going directly to: @http://feh.auth.orc.scoolaid.bet and using the login and password given to you by Library Staff

Check out the following databases (easy to find if you click on A-Z Listing at the top:
//**Academic OneFile**// //African-American Experence// //CERF// //**Daily Life Through History**// //ProQuest Platinum// //**SIRS Knowledge Source**// //**Grolier Encyclopedia Online**// //**World Book Online**//

From the Library home page (you will need a separate password for use outside school which the library staff can give you: //[|**U.S. History Collection]// //[|Diversity Studies Collection]//


 * DON'T MISS THESE!

**Adirondack Museum.** Adirondack Journal — Timbucto: African American History in the Adirondacks
@http://www.adkmuseum.org/about_us/adirondack_journal/?id=63 (Timbuctoo, John Brown, Garrit Smith)

@http://www.northcountryundergroundrailroad.com/Many links to information about events, publications, newspaper articles, web sites, much more.
 * North Country Underground Railroad ** **Historical Association** Web site

**Newspaper article**: "Museum marks North Country's Underground Railroad Past," May 31, 2012

@http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x1595585516/Museum-marks-North-Countrys-Underground-Railroad-past

**The Underground Railroad Conductor** @http://www.undergroundrailroadconductor.com/ Includes map of Underground Railroad in the U.S.; many links.

**National Underground Railroad Freedom Center** @http://www.freedomcenter.org/

**//Timbuctoo//:**
//Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore.// The Making of an Exhibition: Dreaming of Timbuctoo http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic29-1-2/exhibit.html

Aural History Productions. Dreaming of Timbuctoo...Listen to Professor John Stauffer's speech about Timbuctoo and the importance of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and others in its formation.
@http://www.apnmag.com/Back%20in%20the%20Day/winter2003/Timbuctoo/timbucto.htm

@http://mcdaniel.blogs.rice.edu/?p=14
 * [|In Search of John Brown’s Timbucto, Part I]** **& II.** //**Offprints**// blog by Caleb McDaniels

Excavation reveals clues about Timbuctoo. //Lake Placid News.// July 31, 2009
by MARISSA PICCIRILLI,

//John Brown//
A description of Plattsburgh State Feinberg Library's Special Collections archives on John Brown: @http://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/3/files/Cotter.pdf

"I will be heard!"-Abolitionism in America
[|http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm]

** "I will be heard!"-Abolitionism in America **
[|http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm]

New York State History Net.//Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum.//
@http://www.nyhistory.com/gerritsmith/index.htm

//Underground Railroad in the Adirondacks//
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. //Underground Railroad: Heritage Trail.// @http://nysparks.com/historic-preservation/heritage-trails/underground-railroad/default.aspx

** "I will be heard!"-Abolitionism in America **
[|http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm]