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1930s: Then and Now

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Books:

Search the library catalog  by keyword for topics like racism, immigration, women. Then use the book index or table of contents to determine if the 1930's are covered in the book. Books are a good choice for the historical aspects of your topic.  For current information, periodicals and web resources are better choices as they are updated more frequently.

 

Databases:

  •  Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card. 
  • All databases content has been evaluated for you. Also, all have MLA citations.

  Need pictures? 

Try Britannica Imagequest. Includes many historical image collections.  You will also find MLA citation information.

Discovery Education (login with your student ID # and password) also has images with MLA citation information.

 

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Agriculture & Agribusiness
Anthropology
Applied Sciences
Architecture
Arts & Entertainment
Biography
Biology
Biotechnology
Botany
Business & Management
Chemistry
Communication & Mass Media
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Computer Science
Construction & Building
Consumer Health
Dance
Dentistry
Diplomacy & International Relations
Drama & Theater Arts
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Economics
Education
Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Film
Forests & Forestry
Geography & Cartography
Geology
Health & Medicine
History
Information Technology
Language & Linguistics
Law
Library & Information Science
Life Sciences
Literature & Writing
Marketing
Mathematics
Military History & Science
Mining & Mineral Resources
Music
Nursing & Allied Health
Nutrition & Dietetics
Oceanography
Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Physical Therapy
Physics
Politics & Government
Power & Energy
Psychology
Public Health
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ABC-CLIO
EBSCO History
Annals of American History EBSCO ebooks

Gale Virtual

Reference Library

Newsbank Historic Newspapers

Of the 9 databases, make sure to try American History (click on Eras tab at top to browse).

MLA citations at bottom of articles.

Search by decade (e.g. "1930s") for articles or browse by clicking United States History and mining down through time periods.

MLA citations.

All primary source documents.  Clumsy search engine, browse by decade.  MLA citation provided.  We have the print books in the Reference Room (L2), Call number: REF 973 ANNALS. A collection of over 200,000 online books. Read online or download to your mobile device. Navigate using table of contents or index.  MLA citation provided.

This library is a collection of reference books now online. We own these and many other titles in print and on GVRL.

American Decades  (REF 973.9 AME)     

American Decades: Primary Sources (REF 973.9 AME)

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century American (REF 306 BOW) 

Social History of the United States  (REF 306 SOC) 

Excellent primary source. Browse or search for specific keywords while limiting to 1930-1939.

Citation information provided.

Sample citation:

"Needy Citizen Finds no Takers after Offer to Lease His Body for Human Medical Laboratory." Dallas Morning News, 9 Nov. 1936, p. 5. Newsbank America's Historical Newspapers. Accessed 30 Mar. 2018.

 

 

  • You might consider using World Book Online for its excellent primary sources. Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card.
  • EBSCO Discovery Search  (EDS) allows you to power search across many of our databases.  You will need to experiment with the keywords you use to search as those that work in one database may not work well in another.

 

Internet Resources:

Unlike database sources that have been selected specifically for high school research, internet sources need to be carefully evaluated prior to using them in a school paper. 


We use the CARS method of evaluation.  Review the video below.

Complete a CARS worksheet for any secondary source you access on the internet and use for this assignment.

You will need to sign in to your Poway  Google Drive (this is easy to access via Google Apps icon in MyPlan)

Click on CARS Worksheet linkSelect File, Make a Copy.

Rename the copy,  Last Name CARS

Share your source by copying the shared link and adding it to the annotation of your Noodletools citation for that source.

Ms. Powell's completed CARS worksheet.


Need some evaluated web resources try Sweet Search, if you don't find what you want they have a option to google as well.

 

Recommended Websites:

 

Sample sources with MLA citations.




 

 Lange, Dorothea. A 1930s Billboard about "The American Way". 2005. Discovery Education Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.

Bonus Army March. 4 June 1932. Hoover and the Depression: The Bonus Army, Authentic History Center, www.authentichistory.com/1930-1939/1-hoover/ 2-bonusarmy/index.html. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.

Lange, Dorothea. Migrant Mother. Feb. 1936. Farm Security Administration/ Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998021539/PP/. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.

Fashion Designer Claire McCardell. 2 May 1955. Time Magazine, content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601550502,00.html. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.

Evicted Sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1939. ABC-CLIO African American Experience, africanamerican.abc-clio.com/ Search/Display/1464181. Accessed 16 Mar. 2017.

 

Primary Sources

Primary sources allow researchers to get as close as possible to the events in history they are studying.

Watch this brief video defining the difference between primary and secondary sources.

 

For one of the primary sources you use for this project, complete the Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis  (PSA) Tool.

If you have trouble figuring out what to put in each box, click on the question mark.

 

Once completed, DOWNLOAD your analysis.  Include a title, URL and your name prior to clicking DOWNLOAD.

Open in Adobe Acrobat and Save As to your school drive (it is labeled with your ID number)

Sign in to your Poway Google Drive (this is easy to access via Google Apps icon in MyPlan)

Click on New.  Select File Upload.  Find your Primary Source Analysis that you completed and saved and upload it.

Once uploaded Rename it,  Last Name Period # PSA.

Share your completed PSA with Ms. Reschan, sreschan@powayusd and with Ms. Powell, kpowell@powayusd.com

 

Ms Powell's completed PSA

 

 

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