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

National Public Radio's 100 Most Important Musical Works of the 20th Century

Film History: 100 Years of Movies

Science:

Twentieth Century Inventors & Inventions

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.