A Pathfinder for To Kill a Mockingbird
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OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT WEB INDEX
1. "Emmett Till Murder." The American Mosaic: The African American Experience. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 13 Oct.
2010. http://africanamerican.abc-clio.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ (requires LAPL card).
2. "To Kill a Mockingbird Turns 50: Overview." The American Mosaic: The African American Experience. ABC-CLIO,
2010. Web. 13 Oct. 2010. http://africanamerican.abc-clio.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ (requires LAPL card).
3. 1930's Timeline - Yearly table of major events in America during the Great Depression and New Deal. (ODP
summary)
4. America from the Great Depression to World War II - Records of the Farm Security Administration and Office of
War Information Collection, showing rural life and the negative impact. (ODP summary)
5. Great Myths of the Great Depression - Critique of some established views about the Great Depression of 19291941 written by the economist Lawrence W. Reed. (ODP summary)
6. Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression - The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and
copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history. (ODP summary)
7. Jim Crow Online - The official home of the PBS documentary, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. (ODP summary)
8. Living New Deal Project - Information about Depression era public works projects in California, including
photographs and reproductions of documents. User input is solicited. (ODP summary)
9. Main Causes of the Great Depression - A short paper on the origins of the Great Depression. Discusses economic
problems and policies that led to the American economic collapse in the 1930s. Includes bibliography. (ODP
summary)
ARTICLES FROM GALE LITERATURE CENTER
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"`To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lees Tragic Vision."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205250&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Blues for Atticus Finch: Scottsboro, Brown, and Harper Lee."EXPLORING Novels. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
1200622&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Discovering Theme and Structure in the Novel."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205252&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Harper Lee On Killing Mockingbirds."Student Resource Center. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ218
1700486&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day."Student Resource Center. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ218
1700485&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Harper Lee."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205254&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Historical Context: To Kill a Mockingbird."EXPLORING Novels. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
1500100&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"In Defense of To Kill a Mockingbird."EXPLORING Novels. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
1200618&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
"Keen Scalpel on Racial Ills."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205253&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
10. "Lee, (Nelle) Harper (1926-)."UXL Junior DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: UXL, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
0100256&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
11. "Lee, Harper (1926-)."Encyclopedia of World Biography. Jennifer Mossman. 202nd Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GBRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EK16
31007539&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
12. "Lee, Nelle Harper (1926-)."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1100631&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
13. "Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird."EXPLORING Novels. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
1200026&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
14. "Plot Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1301305&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
15. "Plot Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird."UXL Junior DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: UXL, 2003. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
0300119&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
16. "Reconstructing Atticus Finch."Student Resource Center. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ218
1700487&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
17. "Store and Mockingbird: Two Pulitzer Novels about Alabama."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205251&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
18. "The Redemption of Atticus Finch." Southern Cultures. (Vol. 6). .4 (Winter 2000): p1. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
19. "The Romantic Regionalism of Harper Lee."DISCovering Authors. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ210
1205249&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0>.
20. "Themes and Construction: To Kill a Mockingbird."EXPLORING Novels. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=DC&docId=EJ211
1500040&source=gale&userGroupName=lapl&version=1.0
21. Atkinson, Rob. "Comment on Steven Lubet, 'Reconstructing Atticus Finch.'." Michigan Law Review. 97.6 (May 1999): 13701372. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 194. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
22. Best, Rebecca H. "Panopticism and the use of "the other" in to Kill a Mockingbird." The Mississippi Quarterly. (Vol. 62). .34 (Summer-Fall 2009): p541. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
23. Champion, Laurie. "Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." Explicator. 61.4 (Summer 2003): 234-236. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 194. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
24. Champion, Laurie. "Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." The Explicator. (Vol. 61). .4 (Summer 2003): p234. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
25. Chura, Patrick. "Prolepsis and Anachronism: Emmet Till and the Historicity of To Kill a Mockingbird." Southern Literary
Journal. 32.2 (Spring 2000): 1-26. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 194. Detroit: Gale,
2005. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
26. Crespino, Joseph. "The Strange Career of Atticus Finch." Southern Cultures. 6.2 (Summer 2000): 9-29. Rpt. in Contemporary
Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 194. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public
Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
27. Dave, R. A. "'To Kill a Mockingbird': Harper Lee's Tragic Vision." Indian Studies in American Fiction. Ed. M. K. Naik, S.
Mokashi-Punekar, and S. K. Desai The Macmillan Company of India Limited, 1974. 311-323. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
28. Ellsworth, Loretta. "What Harper Lee taught me about writing and the writing life." The Writer. (Vol. 123). .9 (Sept. 2010):
p8. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
29. Erisman, Fred. "The Romantic Regionalism of Harper Lee." The Alabama Review. 26.2 (Apr. 1973): 122-136. Rpt. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
30. Felty, Darren. "An overview of To Kill a Mockingbird." Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
31. Flynt, Wayne. "The enduring legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird: universal values: a half century after its first publication,
Harper Lee's only novel continues to shape character and touch lives the world over." Alabama Heritage. 97 (Summer
2010): p6. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 13 Oct. 2010
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
JSTOR ARTICLE LISTS (by keyword)
Click on the keyword and you should be asked for the school’s JSTOR login and password, then you will be sent to the
list of articles for that keyword query.
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A Reaction: "Stand up, Your Father [A Lawyer] Is Passing", Burnele V. Powell, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 6, 1999
Survey of Books Related to the Law(May, 1999), pp. 1373-1375,The Michigan Law Review Association Stable
URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290208
2. Atticus Finch, in Context, Randolph N. Stone, Michigan Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 6, 1999 Survey of Books Related to the
Law(May, 1999), pp. 1378-1381,The Michigan Law Review Association Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290210
3. Being Atticus Finch: The Professional Role of Empathy in "To Kill a Mockingbird, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 5 (Mar.,
2004), pp. 1682-1702,The Harvard Law Review Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4093264
4. Class Conflict and Jim Crow Segregation in the Postbellum South, William J. Wilson, The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 19,
No. 4, American Society at the Bicentennial: Revising Our Understanding(Oct., 1976), pp. 431-446, University of California
Press Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1388831
5. From Page to Screen: When a Novel Is Interpreted for Film, What Gets Lost in the Translation?,Lawrence Baines, Journal of
Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 39, No. 8 (May, 1996), pp. 612-622, International Reading Association Stable
URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/40015652
6. Gentleman as Hero: Atticus Finch and the Lonely Path, Marie A. Failinger, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2(1993 1994), pp. 303-309,Journal of Law and Religion, Inc. Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1051135
7. Jim Crow: Racism and Reaction in the New South, Fath Davis Ruffins, The Journal of American History, Vol. 78, No. 1(Jun.,
1991), pp. 264-268, Organization of American Historians Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2078101
8. Liberating Lawyers: Divergent Parallels in "Intruder in the Dust" and "To Kill a Mockingbird",Rob Atkinson, Duke Law
Journal, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Dec., 1999), pp. 601-748, Duke University School of Law Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1373084
9. Prolepsis and Anachronism: Emmet Till and the Historicity of to Kill a Mockingbird, Patrick Chura, The Southern Literary
Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 1-26, University of North Carolina Press Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078264
10. Studying Lynching in the Jim Crow South, Alexander X. Byrd, OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 18, No. 2, Jim Crow(Jan., 2004),
pp. 31-36,Organization of American Historians Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163659
11. The Heritage of Cain: Crime in American Fiction, M. E. Grenander, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, Vol. 423, Crime and Justice in America: 1776-1976 (Jan., 1976), pp. 47-66,Sage Publications, Inc. in association with
theAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1041422
12. The Legality of 'Jim Crow' Regulations, L. C. Green, The International Law Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4(Oct., 1950), pp. 590596,Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law Stable
URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/762925
13. The Origin of the First "Jim Crow" Law, Stanley J. Folmsbee, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 15, No. 2(May, 1949), pp.
235-247,Southern Historical Association Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2197999
14. To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Holcomb, Film Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Summer, 2002), pp. 34-40, University of California
Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213934
15. Young Adult Literature: Atticus, David, and Raymond: Role Models for YA Males, Chris Crowe, The English Journal, Vol. 88,
No. 6(Jul., 1999), pp. 119-122, National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/822211