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Books From our Library
Searching the online catalog (on your desktop): remember to search general keywords, like prohibition, great depression, railroads, 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)

** Periodicals **
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

Databases
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 POWER Library: (try the following databases) Access POWER Library from home Chester Co. Public Library(you will need your library card #) Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Literature Reference Center Contemporary Authors
 * In EBSCO- MAS Ultra, Masterfile Premier, Newspaper Source
 * Netlibrary - Ebooks
 * AP Images- great photos from newspapers
 * 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
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
 * General U.S. History**

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] 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/1930s**

Great Depression (University of Ilinois)
 * Art**

Great Depression (University of Ilinois) Cimarron, OK Heritage Center York, Nebraska Living History Farm Modern American Poetry: Dustbowl (Univ. of Illinois)  Voices from the Dust Bowl - primary sources (Lib. Of Congress) American Memory Collection: Dust Bowl (Lib. of Congress) Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS)
 * Dust Bowl**

National John Steinbeck Center Nobel Prize.org Martha Heasley Cox Center for John Steinbeck Studies American Writers.org
 * John Steinbeck**

[|American Academy of Pediatrics]- Birth defects page[|American Pregnancy] [|March of Dimes] [|Medline Plus] - Genetics/ Birth defects page [|Medline Plus] - Birth defect organization websites [|Web MD] - Health conditions A to Z [|Kids Health] - pick from the list or type a birth defect name into the search bar [|CDC Health from A to Z] - index of diseases and conditions and [|Birth Defects] page
 * Mental Retardation**

Voices from the Dust Bowl (Lib. of Congress) Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS) Florida Memory Collection History Place - Dorothea Lange photos
 * Migrant Workers**

FBI History Onewal.com
 * Organized Crime**

Digital History Prohibition in the Progressive Era (Lib. of Congress) Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition primary sources (Brown University)
 * Prohibition**

Digital History PBS: Riding the Rails
 * Railroads**

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

Macrohistory
 * World War II**

Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes __ Digital History __
 * Women**

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