"In
our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else
we all go down."
--
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I. ONLINE DATABASES
These links will direct you to databases that our school library subscribes to. They may provide you with magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other information on your 1930s topic. You must get the appropriate customer IDs and passwords for these sites from the school library:
SIRS
Knowledge Source -- General reference databases with thousands
of full-text articles from over
1500
publications. Covers the arts & humanities, history, government, and
reviewed
web sites.
EBSCOhost
-- Includes
a variety of databases covering everything from health to education. Magazine
and
newspaper articles.
NewsBank NewsFile -- Full text articles from 500+ newspapers.
World Geography -- Everything you might want to know about the world. Includes graphics, maps.
Tennessee Electronic Library -- Includes 12 databases free to all Tennessee citizens.
II. WEB RESOURCES
A. These links will take you to websites which have general information on the 20th century:
20th
Century History
Year by Year 1900-2001
Eyewitness to the 20th Century
Historical Atlas
of the Twentieth Century
The 20th Century by
CNN
The 20th Century by
the Associated Press
Times 100 Most Important People
of the 20th Century
Your Place in Time--20th Century
America
Library
of Congress American Memory Collections
Social Security Online
History Page
National
Archives and Records Administration: Picturing the Century
B. These links provide subject specific information on the 20th Century:
American & British
Literature:
Twentieth
Century American and British Literature
American Culture:
20th Century American
Culture
A
Digital Archive of American Architecture
The Costume Gallery--Twentieth
Century Fashion
Sense and
Sensibility Clothing
A History of Music--20th
Century
American
Cultural History--The Twentieth Century
The
Twentieth Century Music Chronology--Emory University
National
Public Radio's 100 Most Important Musical Works of the 20th Century
Film History: 100 Years of Movies
Influential
African-Americans of the 20th Century
Science:
Twentieth
Century Inventors & Inventions
Science Timetable
of the 20th Century
C. These links provide information specific to the 1930s:
New
Deal Network
PBS American Experience: Surviving
the Dustbowl
University of
Virginia's 1930s Project
FDR Cartoon Archive
New Deal Cultural
Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
Outlaws
& Badmen (and Women)
III.
PRINT RESOURCES:
Reference Books: The following reference books are available through the school library. Titles and call numbers are provided. Please note that similar items can be found at the same call numbers in the nonfiction section. Be sure to continue your search there.
The People's
Almanac Presents the 20th Century (R 031 WAL)
Statistical Abstract of the United States (R
310.25 STA)
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History (R
355 DUP)
World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder (R
364.03 ENC)
The Timetables of Science (R 509 HEL)
Cinema Year by Year (R 523.1 CIN)
Encyclopedia of Medical History (R 610 MCG)
Timelines of the Arts and Literature (R 700
BRO)
Lives and Works in the Arts--20th Century: America (R
700.92 LIV)
America: A Celebration (R 779.9 SAN)
A History of Western Music (R 780.09 GRO)
Music in the Twentieth Century (R 780.9 HER)
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (R
803 ENC)
Great American Writers: 20th Century (R 810.9
GRE)
Chronology of World History: 1901-1998 The Modern World
(902.02 CHR)
Chronicle of the 20th Century (R
909.82 CHR)
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century (R
909.82 FAC)
The Century (R 909.82 JEN)
Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century (R
909.82 OUR)
The Twentieth Century (5 vols. R 909.82 TWE)
American Decades (10 vols. R 917.3 AME)
20th-Century World Leaders (R
920.009 BIO)
Dictionary of World Biography (vols. vii-ix
R 920.02 TWE)
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
(4 vols. R973.003 ENC)
The Columbia Chronicles of American Life 1910-1992 (R
973.9 GOR)
The American Century (R 973.9
EVA)
20th Century America: A Primary Source Collection from the
Associated Press (10 vols. R 973.921 TWE)
In addition to the above reference books you may want to make use of the Time magazines our library has with holdings going as far back as 1924. Don't forget to also make use of American Heritage, Smithsonian, and American History Illustrated magazines that will have articles about relevant 1930's topics.