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 HistoryModern, World History-Ancient and Medieval, American History, AfricanAmerican 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.
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
1920-1929
Contains many links to great sites, including: chronologies, biographies, culture,
music, organizations, etc.
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
A Biography of America: The Twenties
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/index.html#
The History Project
Provides American History Links -Resources
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/resources.php
The Avalon Project
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
PBS – JAZZ The Roaring Twenties: History in the key of Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
The Twenties Roar
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web11/segment6.html
American Jazz Culture in the 1920s
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/index.ht
ml
The Devil’s Music: 1920s Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html
The Eighteenth Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act/
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/why-prohibition
A Byte Out of History: Eliot Ness and the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/january/ness010307
American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/prohibition.html
Speakeasies: Modern American History
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005fall2010/tag/speakeasies/
Prohibition, Padlocking Speakeasies, Detroit, 1920s
https://www.reuther.wayne.edu/node/8264
Organized Crime: How It Was Changed by Prohibition
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organizedcrime2.html
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html
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.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/
Centennial Photographs
The Roaring Twenties.
http://www.100.nist.gov/twenties.htm
Music, Art and Culture of the Roaring 20’s
http://www.alephnull.net/20s/
Clash of Culture
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/introduction/intro.htm
Slang of the 1920’s
http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
Flappers and Fashion
http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
http://www.bartleby.com/95/index.html
The Roaring Twenties (websites)
http://www.westmount.ci.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/1920s.html
Life in the 1920s
http://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/U7/U7_main.cfm
The Roaring 20s: Best History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1900/roaring-20s
Film History of the 1920's
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Gallery Three: The Roaring Twenties
Provides information about the decade from the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Museum and Library.
http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/index.html
1920’s
Includes political scandals, crime, economic upheaval and women’s issues.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/state/alhn1920.html
Americans on the Move: Americans Adopt the Auto
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_8_7.html
WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1920-1929
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
The Golden Age of competition
http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-sports.html
Baseball History
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/baseball-history.htm
Babe Ruth: Constructing a Legend
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/Baberuth/writers.html
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sports/
Bill Tilden
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Tilden__Bill.html
Bill Tilden Biography
http://sports.jrank.org/pages/4865/Tilden-Bill.html
The National Pasttime in the 1920’s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5087/
Early Baseball Pictures
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmabout.html
Jack Dempsey
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/dempsey/biography.htm
Article: Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0624.html
Gertrude Ederle
Biography
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Ederle_Gertrude.html
Manhattan Island Foundation, Inc.: Gertrude Ederle
http://www.nycswim.org/Event/Event.aspx?Event_ID=1911
Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim English Channel at 98
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/01/gertrude_ederle_first_wo
man_to_swim_english_channel_at_98/
When Gertrude Ederle Turned the Tide
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3672954/When-GertrudeEderle-turned-the-tide.html
The Official Site of Jim Thorpe
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe/
Charles Lindbergh – Biography
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hauptmann/clindbergh.html
Spirit of St. Louis: Milestones of Flight
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/stlouis.html
The American Experience Lindberg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/
Lindberg Trial
http://www.nj.com/lindbergh/index.ssf?/lindbergh/crime.html
The Way We Worked
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/
The Wonderful World of the Department Store
http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/charm/dept.store.pdf
Promises, Promises: The Allure of the Household Appliances in the 1920s
http://www.brickhaus.com/amoore/magazine/house.html
1920’s Interior Decorating
http://www.1920-30.com/interior-decorating/
The Monkey Trial
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/