Use the resources suggested below to understand the basics of your monument or ancient site. Once you have a solid understanding of your topic, you can move into exploring the scholarly conversation surrounding it.
Can I use wikipedia? Yes! If you're unsure where to begin, wikipedia can be an excellent source for basic information (important people, places, dates, etc.). Check the references at the bottom of each article to find additional sources, including primary documents.
Online Collections from Bunn Library:
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as a Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.
Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations — ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and medieval Asia, and Islamic Empire. This authoritative online database covers prehistory through the 1500s with a user-friendly interface. Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations. Complete coverage: full scope of ancient history from prehistory through the mid-15th century.
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library. A database of over 1,000 reference ebooks, such as encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Suggested Encyclopedias to Explore:
The Cambridge Ancient History
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
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Online Collections from Bunn Library:
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
This full-text database contains a broad range of scholarly journals in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The JSTOR mission is unique in that it creates a permanent, digitized archive of the selected titles.
A comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals to support a core liberal arts curriculum at any academic institution. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields.
Academic Search Engines:
Google Scholar is a free search engine that allows users to search for academic content (such academic papers, dissertations, theses, and case law) across the web, including content owned by Bunn Library. Results with full-text access will have a link in the column to the left of the title.
Access Google Scholar using the link provided below to ensure that you will retrieve full-text results from Bunn Library databases, or add The Lawrenceville School to "My Library" section of your user profile. For help or questions regarding Google Scholar, please reach out to Ms. Sinai at asinai@lawrenceville.org.
Books from Bunn Library:
Search the Bunn Library catalog to view physical items available at the library (such as books, DVDs, games, and equipment), as well as ebooks and audiobooks.
Includes access to over 50,000 academic ebook titles on across a range of disciplines.
To find a book, search the Bunn Library Catalog. Use the General Keyword search to broaden your results. For a narrower focus, search the catalog by Subject Keyword using the drop-down menu.
To find books in the stacks, look at the call number:
000-699: Lower Level
800-899: Main Floor, next to Fiction
700-799, 900-999: Second Floor *Most of your books will be in the 700s or 900s
Have a useful book in hand?
Look at the Index for additional keywords and locate where they are discussed in your book.
Check the Bibliography for additional sources that are connected to your topic.
Suggested book titles (in print and ebook formats):
The Roman Forum
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The Colosseum
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The Roman Forum
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Discoveries: Search for Ancient Rome
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The Sites of Rome
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Some suggestions from the web:
The following websites may have some helpful information about the origin of your monument, or its current status. If you venture outside of these suggestions, make sure to verify the credibility of the source, including the author and publisher. What are their credentials? What makes them an expert?
Analyzing an artifact can be tough! Start with these questions to help think through how the design choices supports the creator's goals.
[1] Describe the monument: When was it made? What materials were used? To whom/what is the monument dedicated? Who commissioned for it to be built? Are there any other individuals, mythological or historical, to whom your monument was connected?
[2] Record basic information about the monument: Who created it? When? Does the piece have a title, or supporting text that can provide more context?
[3] Based on what you know about the monument, what message did the creator(s) intend to express? Who was the intended audience?
Suggested image collections:
Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.
Jstor Images contains over 1.8 million digital images in the arts, architecture, the humanities and science from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, and photo archives.