The 1930’s/The Grapes of Wrath
Prepared for Ms. O’Leary
March 7, 2014
Print:
See the Resource Lists in the MTHS Catalog: Destiny (The MTHS Catalog is located on the Media Center’s Website).
MLA formatting
1) Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. Long Island University’s
2) C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
EDS, Individual Databases AND Reference eBooks
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)
Databases:
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, and Daily Life Through History.
AP Images (Photographic Resource)
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; 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.
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, Literature, 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's SIRS Knowledge Source
Includes Renaissance, Researcher and WebSelect.
Reference Ebooks:
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 PresseBooks:Salem History, Salem Health, Salem Science, Salem Literature.
Websites:
The Depression in the United States
Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1930-39
American Experience: PBS
This site is keyword searchable.
Photographs of the Great Depression
New Deal Network
Library of Congress
American Memory, Historic Newspapers, Veterans History, etc.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
American History 1930-1939
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
The 1930's
Provides a substantial index of resources on the 1930s. Topic resources include a great linked timeline, film, print, display, etc.
20th Century History: 1930s
Historical American Buildings Survey: Web Resources
Historic Federal Building Database
The New Deal Stage: Federal Theatre Project
By the People and For the People: Posters from the WPA
Fashion in the 1930's
Gallery Clothing of the 1930’s
History of Fashion 1930’s
Health Medicine and American Culture 1930-1960
The Depression in the U.S.
California Gold
About the Dust Bowl
Farm Life During the Great Depression
Voices From The Dust Bowl
Lending A Hand: A Women Remembers the Hoboes of the 1930’s
YAHOO Directory
1930s
WWW-VL: History: United States History Index: 1930-1939
Pages and Pages of links by topic.
Compensation and Working Conditions from before WWI through the Great Depression
National Archive
National Archives: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Table of contents: The Great Depression
Will provide some useful key words and ideas; however no direct links.
Roosevelt University- Center for the New Deal Studies
Links on the New Deal
The Great Depression in Washington State
Steinbeck
Center for Steinbeck Studies
John Steinbeck (1902-68)
Center for Working Class Studies: John Steinbeck
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: The Grapes of Wrath
Banned Book Awareness: The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck and Censorship
Center for Steinbeck Studies
PAL: John Steinbeck
Film Notes: The Grapes of Wrath
Dust Bowl Legacies: The Oakie Impact on California, 1939-1989
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Oakie Culture in California
Dust Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took Their Toll
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains : Oakies
Dust Bowl Migration
Voices from the Dust Bowl
Hollywood
Hollywood and the Great Depression
Movies in the Depression
Media History Project Timeline
The Production Code of 1930
The 1930s on Film
Society
Depression Era
WPA and Social Realism
Social Security: A Program and Policy History
Having Fun: Family Life During the Great Depression
Teenage Hobos During the Great Depression
Crime
The Barker Gang
John Dillinger
The Scottsboro Boys Trial
Crime in Rural America During the Depression
Crime and the Great Recession
The FBI and the American Gangster: 1924-1938
The History of Gambling in the United States: The Third Wave (Early 1930s – Present)
Science and Technology
World's Fair and Exposition Collectibles
History of Communications: 1930-1959
Images from the 1939 New York World's Fair
Images from the 1933-34 Century of Progress Fair: Chicago
1930's Timeline
Government and Technology in the Great Depression
JSTOR article
General References
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
The Great Depression in Morris County, NJ
Internet Public Library 2
- Fashion, careers, family roles, taboos for women, the work place, wages
- Gertrude Stein, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Margaret Mitchell, Jane Addams, Pearl S .Buck, Amelia Earhart
- President Hoover
- President Roosevelt’s "New Deal," social security
- Wall Street
- Statistics: population, wages and salaries, costs of home, food, cars, rent
Innovation
- Television, radio, World’s Fair (1933)
- U.S. Nobel Prize winners
- Glenn Curtiss, Sigmund Freud, T.A. Edison, Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Golden Gate Bridge, Boulder Dam during 1930s
Education in the 1930s
- Educational Reforms: John Dewey - "Experience and Education"
- Level of education - State Laws
- Literacy
in the 1930s
- Jim Crow laws, voting rights, civil rights, education, occupations in North and South
- Discrimination, treatment by white people.
- Education for African American
- Great Depression, New Deal effects on African Americans.
- W.B. Dubois, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington. Marian Anderson,
- Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Bessie Smith, Lena Horn
What and Who Made the News
- Sports, disasters, "big" events, 21st amendment, crime
- Howard Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, Knute Rockne, Joe Louis, John Dillinger, George Eastman
Political Concerns of the 1930s -International Relations
- Relationships with other world leaders
- League of Nations
- Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, MacArthur
- Popular Entertainment of the1930s
Movies, Hollywood Stars - Dance
- Radio Programs
- Popular music: "The Cotton Club"
- Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Judy Garland
America at Work, School and Leisure
Expansion of the National Parks Service in the 1930s
Child Labor in the 1930s
Farm Labor in the 1930s
Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s
The Great Depression
Popular Professions for Men and Women in the 1930's
Marriage during the 1930's
Food/Nutrition/Cuisine during the 1930's
Entertainment during the 1930's
Racism/Segregation during the 1930's
Laws/Restrictions in the 1930's
Mafia during the 1930's
Popular sports during the 1930's