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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 inthe 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 BritannicaImagequest. 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.
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)
American Memory Collection , from the Library of Congress, especially good for women's history, African American and Native American history, and immigration. Try a one or two keyword search across the 77 collections.
Time Magazine Archive 1923 - present. Search by specific topic and then refine by date. You will not be able to access the full-text from the website but once you have the date and title you can find it (minus and pictures) on EBSCO.
Ad*Access (Duke University Libraries) Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
The 907 posters in this collection were produced from 1936 to 1943. The posters publicized exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs.
America in the the 1930s - from the University of Virginia. Go to the Site Index to be able to browse or search the entire collection.
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.
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