The 1920's and Historical Imagination
Ms. O’Leary
1920s – The Great Gatsby Research
March 4, 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)
Best first choices are listed below.
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 digitized back issues of over one thousand journals, 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 - Includes over 600 multi-volume specialized 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.
Possible Topics:
The Stock Market Boom
Music
Fashion
Prohibition
Organized Crime
Sports
Automobiles
Movie Industry
Labor Saving Devices (in the home and/or in the workplace)
The Harlem Renaissance
The Advertising Industry
Art/Architecture/Design
The Wave of Immigration
Women’s Suffrage and Changing role of women
Radio
Fads of the 1920s
The Great Migration
Please see your teacher first, to discuss other possible topics of interest.
Websites:
American Cultural History (1920-1929)
Hosted by the Kingwood College Library, this site chronicles much of the ephemera of the "Roaring 1920's." Some great information about fashion, fads, and cultural oddities of the era.
1920-1929
Contains many links to great sites, including: chronologies, biographies, culture, music, organizations, etc.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
A Biography of America: The Twenties
The History Project
Provides American History Links -Resources
The Avalon Project
PBS – JAZZ The Roaring Twenties: History in the key of Jazz
The Twenties Roar
American Jazz Culture in the 1920s
The Devil’s Music: 1920s Jazz
The Eighteenth Amendment
Temperance and Prohibition
A Byte Out of History: Eliot Ness and the FBI
American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Speakeasies: Modern American History
Prohibition, Padlocking Speakeasies, Detroit, 1920s
Organized Crime: How It Was Changed by Prohibition
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Website
This website, published by the University of South Carolina, provides a wealth of biographical and critical information regarding F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby," and many of Fitzgerald other works as well.
Centennial Photographs
The Roaring Twenties.
Music, Art and Culture of the Roaring 20’s
Clash of Culture
Slang of the 1920’s
Flappers and Fashion
Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
The Roaring Twenties (websites)
Life in the 1920s
The Roaring 20s: Best History Websites
Film History of the 1920's
Gallery Three: The Roaring Twenties
Provides information about the decade from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum and Library.
1920’s
Includes political scandals, crime, economic upheaval and women’s issues.
Americans on the Move: Americans Adopt the Auto
WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1920-1929
The Golden Age of competition
Baseball History
Babe Ruth: Constructing a Legend
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Bill Tilden
Bill Tilden Biography
The National Pasttime in the 1920’s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
Early Baseball Pictures
Jack Dempsey
Article: Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead
Gertrude Ederle
Biography
Manhattan Island Foundation, Inc.: Gertrude Ederle
Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim English Channel at 98
When Gertrude Ederle Turned the Tide
The Official Site of Jim Thorpe
Charles Lindbergh – Biography
Spirit of St. Louis: Milestones of Flight
The American Experience Lindberg
Lindberg Trial
The Way We Worked
The Wonderful World of the Department Store
Promises, Promises: The Allure of the Household Appliances in the 1920s
1920’s Interior Decorating
The Monkey Trial
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