The 1930’s /The Grapes of Wrath
Prepared for Ms. O’Leary
March 7, 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)
Databases:
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, 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.
Websites:
The Depression in the United States
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm
Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1930-39
http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1930.htm
American Experience: PBS
This site is keyword searchable.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/index.html
Photographs of the Great Depression
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Library of Congress
American Memory, Historic Newspapers, Veterans History, etc.
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 19361940
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
American History 1930-1939
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
The 1930's
Provides a substantial index of resources on the 1930s. Topic resources include
a great linked timeline, film, print, display, etc.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
20th Century History: 1930s
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/1930_1939.htm
Historical American Buildings Survey: Web Resources
http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/habs/sources.htm#web
Historic Federal Building Database
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104832?utm_source=PBS&utm_medium=print
-radio&utm_term=historicbuildings&utm_campaign=shortcuts
The New Deal Stage: Federal Theatre Project
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
By the People and For the People: Posters from the WPA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
Fashion in the 1930's
http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/514/story/fashion_thirties.html
Gallery Clothing of the 1930’s
http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/herzj/websites/fashion/gallerypages/1930.html
History of Fashion 1930’s
http://www.fashion-era.com/stylish_thirties.htm
Health Medicine and American Culture 1930-1960
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/goldenage/index.htm
The Depression in the U.S.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
California Gold
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
About the Dust Bowl
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm
Farm Life During the Great Depression
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_01.html
Voices From The Dust Bowl
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Lending A Hand: A Women Remembers the Hoboes of the 1930’s
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/30/
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/117
YAHOO Directory
1930s
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th
_Century/1930s/
WWW-VL: History: United States History Index: 1930-1939
Pages and Pages of links by topic.
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html
Compensation and Working Conditions from before WWI through the Great
Depression
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/compensation-from-before-world-war-i-throughthe-great-depression.pdf
National Archive
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/
National Archives: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New
Deal
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html
Table of contents: The Great Depression
Will provide some useful key words and ideas; however no direct links.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/97-21196.html
Roosevelt University- Center for the New Deal Studies
Links on the New Deal
http://www.roosevelt.edu/newdeal
The Great Depression in Washington State
http://depts.washington.edu/depress/index.shtml
Steinbeck
Center for Steinbeck Studies
http://as.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/biography/index.jsp?val=biography_biography_in_de
pth
John Steinbeck (1902-68)
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/steinbec.html
Center for Working Class Studies: John Steinbeck
http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/literature/john-steinbeck
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: The Grapes of Wrath
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/G/GR010.html
Banned Book Awareness: The Grapes of Wrath
http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2012/08/12/banned-books-awareness-the-grapesof-wrath/
Steinbeck and Censorship
https://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/2003/Morsberger.pdf
Center for Steinbeck Studies
http://as.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/biography/index.jsp?val=biography_Steinbeck_Count
ry
PAL: John Steinbeck
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/steinbeck.html
Film Notes: The Grapes of Wrath
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/steinbeck.html
Dust Bowl Legacies: The Oakie Impact on California, 1939-1989
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/legacies.pdf
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Oakie Culture in California
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/exodus/
Dust Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took Their Toll
http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-21-3-a-dust-bowl-exodus-howdrought-and-the-depression-took-their-toll.html
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowlmass-exodus-plains/?flavour=mobile
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains : Oakies
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ii.044
Dust Bowl Migration
https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1355_0_6_0
Voices from the Dust Bowl
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Hollywood
Hollywood and the Great Depression
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/hollywood_great_depression.cfm
Movies in the Depression
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/comedy/historicalcontext.html
Media History Project Timeline
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1930-1939.html
The Production Code of 1930
http://www.und.edu/instruct/cjacobs/ProductionCode.htm
The 1930s on Film
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/index/index.html
Society
Depression Era
http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/3_0.html
WPA and Social Realism
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/laborMatters/resources/wpa_socialRealismArt.html
Social Security: A Program and Policy History
http://www.law.cornell.edu/socsec/course/readings/ssb_v66n1p1.pdf
Having Fun: Family Life During the Great Depression
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_20.html
Teenage Hobos During the Great Depression
http://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/Exhibitions/CurrentExhibitions/Teenage
HoboesintheGreatDepression.aspx
Crime
The Barker Gang
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BA038.html
John Dillinger
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/john-dillinger
The Scottsboro Boys Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
Crime in Rural America During the Depression
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_26.html
Crime and the Great Recession
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_crime-decline.html
The FBI and the American Gangster: 1924-1938
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/a-centennialhistory/fbi_and_the_american_gangster_1924-1938
The History of Gambling in the United States: The Third Wave (Early 1930s –
Present)
http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/97/03/Chapt2.html
Science and Technology
World's Fair and Exposition Collectibles
http://www.the-forum.com/collect/worldfai.htm
History of Communications: 1930-1959
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/1930-1959.html
Images from the 1939 New York World's Fair
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/nywf.html
Images from the 1933-34 Century of Progress Fair: Chicago
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/chicago/
1930's Timeline
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html
Government and Technology in the Great Depression
JSTOR article
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3103116
General References
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts
in digital form.
http://www.archive.org/
The Great Depression in Morris County, NJ
http://mcl.mainlib.org/depression/
Internet Public Library 2
www.ipl.org
Women of the 1930s
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Fashion, careers, family
roles, taboos for women,
the work place, wages
Gertrude Stein, Mrs.
Wallis Simpson,
Margaret Mitchell, Jane
Addams, Pearl S .Buck,
Amelia Earhart
Economic Concerns of the
1930s
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Science/Technology/
Innovation
President Hoover
President Roosevelt’s
"New Deal," social
security
Wall Street
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Television, radio,
World’s Fair
(1933)
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Statistics: population,
wages and salaries,
costs of home, food,
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U.S. Nobel Prize
winners
Glenn Curtiss,
Sigmund Freud,
T.A. Edison,
cars, rent
Thomas Hunt
Morgan
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Education in the 1930s
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Educational Reforms:
John Dewey "Experience and
Education"
Level of education State Laws
Literacy
Status of African Americans
in the 1930s
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Political Concerns of the
1930s - International
Relations
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Relationships with other
world leaders
League of Nations
Hitler, Churchill, Stalin,
MacArthur
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Jim Crow laws, voting
rights, civil rights,
education,
occupations in North
and South
Discrimination,
treatment by white
people.
Education for African
American
Great Depression,
New Deal effects on
African Americans.
W.B. Dubois, George
Washington Carver,
Booker T.
Washington. Marian
Anderson,
Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston,
Richard Wright,
Bessie Smith, Lena
Horn
Popular
Entertainment of the
1930s
Movies, Hollywood
Stars
Dance
Radio Programs
Popular music: "The
Cotton Club"
Shirley Temple,
Golden Gate
Bridge, Boulder
Dam during
1930s
The Headlines of the
1930s:
What and Who Made
the News
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Sports, disasters,
"big" events, 21st
amendment, crime
Howard Hughes,
Charles Lindbergh,
Knute Rockne, Joe
Louis, John
Dillinger, George
Eastman
Charlie Chaplin,
Benny Goodman,
Glenn Miller, Judy
Garland
America at Work, School and Leisure
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlwork.html
Expansion of the National Parks Service in the 1930s
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/unrau-williss/adhi6a.htm
Child Labor in the 1930s
http://www.illinoishistory.gov/Illinois%20History/Jan05-10Davis.pdf
Farm Labor in the 1930s
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=788_0_6_0
Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/maremp93.pdf
The Great Depression
Popular Professions for Men and Women in the 1930's
Marriage during the 1930's
Food/Nutrition/Cuisine during the 1930's
Entertainment during the 1930's
Racism/Segregation during the 1930's
Laws/Restrictions in the 1930's
Mafia during the 1930's
Popular sports during the 1930's