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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