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list of Web resources / Articles from Gale Literature / Advanced articles searches from JSTOR / Articles from EBSCO Literary Reference / Migrant workers in Great Depression / Treatment of mentally ill in 1930’s
How A Pathfinder Works
This document is divided into three sections listed above website resources, GALE Literature Resource Center and JSTOR articles. To get to any section, just put your mouse on the section title, then pres “Ctrl” and left click your mouse. You will automatically be sent to these section.
DO NOT FORGET: GALE Literature Center requires an LAPL card and JSTOR/EBSCO has a login and password. You will have to enter this information into the database BEFORE the system will send you to the full article.
OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT WEB INDEX
1. Bibliography for Dust Bowl and Migrant Workers - List of articles, books, films and other resources on American migrant farm workers during the Depression. (ODP summary)2. Riding the Rails - Book review of author Errol Lincoln Uys, including a collection of letters from 1930s train-hopping hobos. (ODP summary)
3. The National Steinbeck Center - Centered on the life of John Steinbeck. (ODP summary)
4. Of Mice and Men: a student survival guide created by Belmont HS, LAUSD
5. John Steinbeck Collection at Ball State University Archives and Special Collections
6. The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at the San José State University
7. searchable database of secondary Steinbeck materials
8. C-Span American Writers Series
9. Steinbeck's fiction on IBList
10. John Steinbeck Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin
11. America from the Great Depression to World War II - Records of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection, showing rural life and the negative impact.
12. Bibliography for Dust Bowl and Migrant Workers - List of articles, books, films and other resources on American migrant farm workers during the Depression.
13. Great Myths of the Great Depression - Critique of some established views about the Great Depression of 1929-1941 written by the economist Lawrence W. Reed.
14. Documenting America [ ] - More than 100,000 photographs from the Library of Congress collection show the impact of the Depression on America's people.
15. Dust Bowl Web Quest [ ] - Cooperative activity which requires students to write a piece of historical fiction based on what they have learned about the dustbowl and the Great Depression.
16. The American Experience: Riding the Rails [ ] - At the height of the era, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. This site tells the stories of ten of them -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced. From PBS.
17. The Great Depression [ ] - Take a virtual journey back in time to see how destitute Americans endured poverty, homelessness and fear of the future.
18. War, Prosperity and Depression [ ] - Short essay explores the causes and effects of the depression.
19. Death in the Dust : "Three years before publication [in 1939] of his masterpiece 'The Grapes Of Wrath,' John Steinbeck visited squatters' camps in California. To mark the centenary of his birth, we print [in 2002] this account ... of the misery that he witnessed. ... (IPL2 summary)
ARTICLES FROM GALE LITERATURE CENTER
1. "A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200080&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
2. "Criticism by John H. Timmerman."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207654&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
3. "Criticism by Paul McCarthy."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207653&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
4. "Historical Context: Of Mice and Men."EXPLORING Novels.Detroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111500104&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
5. "John Steinbeck."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207655&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
6. "John Steinbeck."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
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7. "John Steinbeck."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207657&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
8. "John Steinbeck."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207658&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
9. "John Steinbeck: An Introduction and Interpretation."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200082&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
10. "Motif and Pattern in Of Mice and Men."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200079&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
11. "Of George and Lennie and Curleys Wife: Sweet Violence in Steinbecks Eden."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2101207652&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
12. "Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck as Manichean."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
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13. "Overview of Of Mice and Men."EXPLORING Novels.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111200044&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
14. "Plot Summary: Of Mice and Men."DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
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15. "Plot Summary: Of Mice and Men."UXL Junior DISCovering Authors.OnlineDetroit:UXL,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2110300158&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
16. "Themes and Construction: Of Mice and Men."EXPLORING Novels.Detroit:Gale,2003.Discovering Collection.Gale..
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ2111500044&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
17. Attell, Kevin. "An overview of Of Mice and Men." Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
18. Cardullo, Bert. "On the road to tragedy: mice, candy, and land in Of Mice and Men." American Drama. (Vol. 16). .1 (Winter 2007): p19. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
19. Hearle, Kevin. "John Steinbeck." Twentieth-Century American Western Writers: Second Series. Ed. Richard H. Cracroft. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 212. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
20. Leaf, Jonathan. "Of mice & melodrama." New Criterion. (Vol. 26). .4 (Dec. 2007): p84. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
21. Reith, Duncan. "Futile dreams and stagnation: politics in Of Mice and Men: the American novelist John Steinbeck has sometimes been criticised as a sentimentalist. Duncan Reith uncovers the bleak political pessimism behind his novel of ranch life during the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men." The English Review. (Vol. 15). .2 (Nov. 2004): p6. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
22. Scarseth, Thomas. "A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men." Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. Ed. Nicholas J. Karolides, John M. Kean, and Lee Burress Scarecrow Press, 1993. 388-394. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
JSTOR ARTICLE LISTS (by keyword)
Click on the keyword and you should be asked for the school’s JSTOR login and password, then you will be sent to the list of articles for that keyword query.1. "Of Mice and Men": Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism "Of Mice and Men": Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism, Sally Bick, American Music, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 426-472.
2. Current Discussion of California's Migrant Labor Problem, John Walton McCaughey ,Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Sep., 1939), pp. 347-354 ,University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3633810
3. From Page to Screen: When a Novel Is Interpreted for Film, What Gets Lost in the Translation? Lawrence Baines, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 39, No. 8 (May, 1996), pp. 612-622, International Reading Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40015652
4. John Steinbeck and the Coming Literature, Barker Fairley,The Sewanee Review, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1942), pp. 145-161,The Johns Hopkins University Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27537249
5. John Steinbeck as a Spokesman for the Mentally Retarded, Margaret C. Roane, Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2, Books & Writers of the 1920's & 1930's (Summer, 1964), pp. 127-132,University of Wisconsin Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1207327
6. John Steinbeck, Californian, Freeman Champney, The Antioch Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn, 1947), pp. 345-362, Antioch Review, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4609222
7. John Steinbeck, Moralist, Lincoln R. Gibbs, the Antioch Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1942), pp. 172-184, Antioch Review, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4608878
8. John Steinbeck: Novelist as Scientist, Jackson J. Benson, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 3, Tenth Anniversary Issue: III (Spring, 1977), pp. 248-264, Duke University Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1345452
9. My Short Novel, John Steinbeck, The English Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Mar., 1954), p. 147, National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/808303
10. Proletarian Writing and John Steinbeck, Claude E. Jones, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1940), pp. 445-456 ,The Johns Hopkins University Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27535697
11. Talismanic Patterns in the Novels of John Steinbeck, Todd M. Lieber, American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1972), pp. 262-275, Duke University Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2924509
12. The Development of American Rural Fiction, Caroline B. Sherman, Agricultural History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1938), pp. 67-76 ,Agricultural History Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3739573
13. The First Theatrical Production of Steinbeck's of Mice and Men, Warren G. French, American Literature, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Jan., 1965), pp. 525-527, Duke University Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2923187
14. The Sensibility of John Steinbeck, Edwin Berry Burgum, Science & Society, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring, 1946), pp. 132-147, Guilford Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40399749
15. The Last Five Minutes of "Of Mice and Men", Joseph H. Ball, The English Journal, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Apr., 1993), p. 96
16. "To Tom, Who Lived It": John Steinbeck and the Man from Weedpatch, Jackson J. Benson, John Steinbeck, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 151-210
EBSCO Literary Reference Center
Click on the keyword and you should be asked for the school’s JSTOR login and password, then you will be sent to the list of articles for that keyword query. Username and password is inside your Gaggle email; look for Welcome to the Library email dated August, 2011.1. ANDREWS, CHRISTOPHER. "The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." Steinbeck Review 6.2 (2009): 131-134. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=45599219&site=lrc-live
2. Bellman, Samuel I., and Harold Bloom. "SAMUEL I. BELLMAN ON LENNY, CONTROL, AND FREEDOM." Bloom's Major Novelists: John Steinbeck (2000): 58-59. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16430566&site=lrc-live
3. Cardullo, Bert. "On the Road to Tragedy: Mice, Candy, and Land in Of Mice and Men." American Drama 16.1 (2007): 19-29. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=23543128&site=lrc-live
4. Collins, Dorothea Brande, and Harold Bloom. "DOROTHEA BRANDE COLLINS ON THE SENTIMENTALITY OF OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 27-29. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350813&site=lrc-live
5. Doren, Mark Van, and Harold Bloom. "MARK VAN DOREN ON THE UNREALISTIC CHARACTERS IN OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 26-27. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350812&site=lrc-live
6. Emery, Jean, and Harold Bloom. "JEAN EMERY ON MISOGYNY IN OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Major Novelists: John Steinbeck (2000): 67-71. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16430572&site=lrc-live
7. French, Warren G. "Steinbeck's "Self-Characters" as 1930s Underdogs." Critical Insights: John Steinbeck (2010): 197-207. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=57450633&site=lrc-live
8. Geismar, Maxwell, and Harold Bloom. "MAXWELL GEISMAR ON LENNIE." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 32-34. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350816&site=lrc-live
9. Goldhurst, William, and Harold Bloom. "WILLIAM GOLDHURST ON THE CURSE OF CAIN." Bloom's Major Novelists: John Steinbeck (2000): 65-67. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16430570&site=lrc-live
10. Hadella, Charlotte Cook, and Harold Bloom. "CHARLOTTE COOK HADELLA ON ILLUSION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 53-55. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350827&site=lrc-live
11. Jain, Sunita, and Harold Bloom. "SUNITA JAIN ON EVIL IN OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 45-46. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350823&site=lrc-live.
12. Levant, Howard, and Harold Bloom. "HOWARD LEVANT ON THE SIMPLICITY OF OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 41-43. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350821&site=lrc-live
13. Lisca, Peter, and Harold Bloom. "PETER LISCA ON WHY GEORGE STAYS WITH LENNIE." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 34-35. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350817&site=lrc-live
14. Loftis, Anne, and Harold Bloom. "ANNE LOFTIS ON THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 51-53. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350826&site=lrc-live
15. Loftis, Anne. "A Historical Introduction to Of Mice and Men." Critical Insights: John Steinbeck (2010): 134-144. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=57450629&site=lrc-live
16. Moore, Harry Thornton, and Harold Bloom. "HARRY THORNTON MOORE ON DRAMATIC ELEMENTS IN OF MICE AND MEN." Bloom's Notes: Of Mice & Men (1999): 31-32. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16350815&site=lrc-live
17. Moore, Denise. "The Story behind George Orwell's Animal Farm/The Story Behind Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/The Story behind John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." School Library Journal 53.2 (2007): 132. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23962347&site=ehost-live
18. Naef, Weston. "Past masters." New Statesman 133.4696 (2004): 41-43. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=13713638&site=lrc-live
19. Owens, Louis. "Of Mice and Men: The Dream of Commitment." Critical Insights: John Steinbeck (2010): 145-151. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=57450630&site=lrc-live
20. Person Jr., Leland S., and Harold Bloom. "LELAND S. PERSON JR. ON THE DREAM OF A MALE UTOPIA." Bloom's Major Novelists: John Steinbeck (2000): 71-72. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=16430573&site=lrc-live
21. Rasmussen, R. Kent. "Of Mice and Men." Cyclopedia of Literary Places (2003): 1-2. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=103331CLP18250300100824&site=lrc-live