TKAM

=// To Kill A Mockingbird // Background Topics Pathfinder =

= RESOURCES = = =

Books From our Library
Searching the online catalog (on your desktop): remember to search general keywords, like great depression, stock market crash, 1930s, etc. Check the selection of books on display for the project!

Books From other Libraries
Search Chester County Public Library or Access PA to borrow a book through inter-library loan (see Mrs. L to request it)

Databases, Ebooks and Articles (see Mrs. L. for passwords for home access!)

 * All Topics:**
 * ABC-CLIO History database trial //username//: // oxford password: hornets //
 * Gale E-books - access books from our library on your computer! Books are also available in print in the library.
 * Infobase E-books - access books from our library on your computer! Books are also available in print in the library (username: oahs, password: hornets)
 * World Book Online


 * American Heritage Magazine search the online index and access print editions on the library shelves
 * National Geographic Magazine search the online index and access print editions on the library shelves
 * Time Magazine Archive - articles from 1923 to the present


 * Harper Lee:**
 * Literature Reference Center
 * Contemporary Authors
 * Biography Reference Center

Published Sources on the Web

 * Google Books - search and view full-text e-books Advanced search screen
 * Google Scholar - Search scholarly literature from many disciplines and sources, such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
 * Project Muse - full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
 * Project Gutenberg - collection of 30,000 free electronic books (ebooks)
 * Bibliomania - free online access to 2,000 works of literature

Free Websites

 * General U.S. History**
 * American Cultural History: 20th Century
 * Shmoop U.S. History
 * Google Index: 20th Century
 * Yahoo! Index: 20th Century
 * 20th Century Decades
 * People's History
 * Infoplease Year by Year

African American Odyssey (Library of Congress) American Memory Timeline (Library of Congress)
 * African Americans after the Civil War**


 * Great Depression/1930s**
 * American Memory Collection: Great Depression and World War II (Lib. of Congress)
 * America in the 30s (University of Virginia American Studies)
 * New Deal Network (1930s and 1940s)
 * Great Depression Q and A (Roosevelt Library)
 * [|New Deal Agencies]
 * [|New Deal Library of Congress Resources]
 * American Cultural History (Lonestar College)
 * Hitoresearch
 * [|Times Topics: The Works Progress Administration]
 * Macrohistory: Great Depression to1935
 * [|The WPA]
 * WPA Posters (Library of Congress)
 * American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940 (Lib. of Congress)
 * Great Depression (University of Ilinois)
 * American Memory Collection: Dust Bowl (Lib. of Congress)
 * Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)

American South: A History (Google Book)
 * Southern Life in the 1930's**

American Writers.org HarperLee.com
 * Harper Lee**

EconLibrary PBS - The Crash of 1929 Reviewing the 1929 Stock Market Crash - NPR radio broadcast
 * Stock Market Cras**

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (PBS) The Scottsboro Boys: Famous Trials (University of Missouri School of Law)
 * Scottsboro Trials**

Historical Photographs

 * AP Images
 * Life Magazine Image Archive>
 * American Memory Collection (Library of Congress) Great Depression - WWII
 * Great Depression Photo Essay (U of Illinois)
 * Dorothea Lange photos
 * Living History Farm, York, Nebraska
 * Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr
 * Images of American Political History
 * Smithsonian Images
 * National Archives: Exhibits
 * National Archives: Great Depression and New Deal
 * National Archives: Picturing the Century Exhibit
 * Helios: Smitsonian American Art Museum: Photographs
 * New York Public Library: Picture Collection
 * Time - Life Photo Collection
 * Calisphere: a world of primary sources and more (Univ. of California)
 * Exhibits on the Web
 * American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
 * They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II