Photographs of the Great Depression



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 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.

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



|Women of the 1930s |Economic Concerns of the 1930s |Science/Technology/ |

|Fashion, careers, family roles, taboos for women, |President Hoover |Innovation |

|the work place, wages |President Roosevelt’s "New Deal," social |Television, radio, World’s Fair (1933) |

|Gertrude Stein, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Margaret |security |U.S. Nobel Prize winners |

|Mitchell, Jane Addams, Pearl S .Buck, Amelia |Wall Street |Glenn Curtiss,  Sigmund Freud, T.A. |

|Earhart |Statistics:  population, wages and salaries, |Edison, Thomas Hunt Morgan |

| |costs of home, food, cars, rent  |Golden Gate Bridge, Boulder Dam during |

| | |1930s |

|Education in the 1930s |Status of African -Americans |The Headlines of the 1930s: |

|Educational Reforms: John Dewey - "Experience and |in the 1930s |What and Who Made the News |

|Education" |Jim Crow laws, voting rights, civil rights, |Sports, disasters, "big" events, 21st |

|Level of education - State Laws |education, occupations in North and South |amendment, crime |

|Literacy |Discrimination, treatment by white people. |Howard Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, Knute |

| |Education for African American |Rockne, Joe Louis, John Dillinger, George |

| |Great Depression, New Deal effects on African |Eastman |

| |Americans. | |

| |W.B. Dubois, George Washington Carver, Booker | |

| |T. Washington. Marian Anderson, | |

| |Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard | |

| |Wright, Bessie Smith, Lena Horn | |

|Political Concerns of the 1930s - International |Popular Entertainment of the 1930s | |

|Relations |Movies, Hollywood Stars | |

|Relationships with other world leaders |Dance | |

|League of Nations | Radio Programs | |

|Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, MacArthur | 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

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