Ms. O Leary Harlem Renaissance Research
Ms. O’Leary
Harlem Renaissance Research
February 26, 2012
Print/Catolog:
See the Resource Lists in the MTHS Catalog: Destiny (The MTHS’ Destiny Catalog is located on the MTHS Media Center’s Website). Also aResource List called Harlem Renaissanceis located on the Catalog site. It provides a list of print and eBook titles that you may wish to access. In addition, the WebPathExpressis a tool that can be used to search the web. It provides access to websites that have already been validated for use.
MLA formatting (MTHS Media Center Website)
1) Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. Long Island University’s
2) C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
ONLINE Resources
MTHS Media Center Website : Provides access to online research resources
(Located on the Media Center’s RESEARCH PAGE -To use any of these resources, from Home, you will need the Remote Access Codes)
EDS:located on the Research Page in the MTHS Media Center’s Website.
The EDS is a tool that is used to search all of our resources at one time! Thisincludes print, eBooks, databases and all other subscriptions. – To use the EDS Students need to loginto their two school wire account (using your school username and iPrism password). That account will also be used to log into the EDS. In order to download anything in the EDS, especially eBooks, students need to sign into their EBSCO folders, located in the EDS. An account can be created if you do not have one.
Individual Databases: located on the Research Page in the MTHS Media Center’s Website.
Best first choices are listed below & highlighted.
Ebscohost: Provides more than 23 full-text periodical databases as well as 10 other separate exclusive databases (i.e. EBSCOhostWeb (periodicals); Points of View; Literature Reference Center; Poetry and Short Story Reference Center; Student Research Center; Novelist, History, etc.).
Gale's Literature Criticism Online: Provides scholarly and popular commentary delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. The series currently covers more than 3,000 authors and also includes numerous entries focusing on literary topics and individual works. Approximately 95% of critical essays from the print Contemporary Literary Criticism™ series are reproduced in full in this online version, which combines multiple search and browse options with an engaging format that matches the look and feel of the print originals.
ABC-CLIO: Includes:World History (Modern),World History(Ancient& Medieval),American History,The Latino American Experience: is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos, The African American Experience:is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.
AP Images (Photographic Resource)
Facts On File - InfoBase Publishing: Includes databases on: World History-Modern, World History-Ancient and Medieval, American History, African-American History, Curriculum Resource Center, American Women's History, American Indian History, Career Guidance,World Geography and Culture, Bloom's Literary Reference, Health Reference, Science, Today's Science, Issues and Controversies).
JSTOR: A Digital Archive that provides provides full-text searches of digitizedback issues ofover one thousandjournals, dating back to 1665 for some. Can be searched by discipline, title or publisher.
ProQuest SIRS Knowledge Source
Includes Renaissance, Researcher and WebSelect(which provides websites that have already been validated for use).
Reference eBooks: located on the Research Page in the MTHS Media Center’s Website.
ABC-CLIO eBooks
Ebsco's eBook Subscription: Includes over 100,000 ebooks.
Gale Virtual Reference E-Library- Includesover 600multi-volumespecialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research and 24/7 access.
InfoBase Learning eBooks
Marshall Cavendish eBooks
Salem Press eBooks: Salem History, Salem Health, Salem Science, Salem Literature.
General Websites:
Drop Me Off In Harlem
Interactive Site
African American Department Collection and State Library Resources
Read Write Think
Perspectives in American Literature : Harlem Renaissance
This site provides a historical and literary timeline, key information regarding this time period, and important links.
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: The Harlem Renaissance
Academy of Poets
Academy of Poets: Search for . . . Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Power of Prose: Harlem Renaissance
Discussion of the Harlem Renaissance in terms of its culture and political impact.
Rhapsodies in Black
Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Chronology and Essays.
Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing
Jazz Age Literature/Culture
The Jazz Age
African American Odyssey: WWI and Post War Society (Part 2)
Short biographies and pictures important to the Renaissance movement .
Harlem Renaissance Women
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Harlem Renaissance: Pivotal Period in the Development of
Afro-American Culture
Cotton Club Reviews
Jim Crow Laws
PBS: Search for . . . Zora Neale Hurston
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Search engine for site searching
Web Guides: Harlem Renaissance
MUSICIANS/ SINGERS/ ENTERTAINERS/ARTISTS
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Douglas
Duke Ellington
William H. Johnson
Bessie Smith
Jacob Lawrence
Billie Holliday
Louis Mailou Jones
Ma Rainey
Ronald C. Moody
Ethel Watersy
Palmer Hayden
Charles Gilpinr
Selma Burke
Ella Fitzgerald
William Grant Still
Josephine Baker
Paul Robeson
Eubie Blake
Hall Johnson
Florence Mills
Evelyn Preer
Adelaide Hall
Fletcher Henderson
Cab Calloway
ATHLETES
Augusta Savage
Satchel Page
James VanDerZee
Oscar Micheaux
A'Leila Walker
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS/ THINKERS/ SUPPORTERS
Marcus Garvey
Alain LeRoy Locke
W.E.B. Dubois
WRITERS/ POETS
Richard Wright
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Sterling A. Brown
Countee Cullen
Arna Bontemps
Jessie Fauset
Marita Bonner
Nella Larsen
Wallace Thurman
Jean Toomer
Zora Neale Hurston