Of Mice and Men

• Gale Virtual Reference Library  look up Of Mice and Men and then browse for anything to do with the historical setting.

Citing your Sources

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Evaluating your Sources

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Primary Sources

Definitions:

• "Firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation" (Yale University Library Primary Sources Research Colloquium).
• "Work that was written (or produced) at a time that is contemporary or nearly contemporary to the period or subject being studied" (Cantor and Schneider, How to Study History). For example using Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mothers (1936) photographs to visualize the effect of the Great Depression on Californian families.

Primary Source Formats:

• Oral transmissions: speeches, music, interview, ballads, legends.
• Written transmissions: diaries, letters, newspapers, census data, laws, government documents.
• Visually transmitted sources:  photographs, cartoons, videos, architecture, artifacts, maps.

Most of the subscription databases and the Internet resources listed on this page contain primary sources.