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ENG 102 - English Composition 2

Places to Find General Information on the 1930s and 1940s

America in the 1930s - Includes a timeline of events; from the American Studies program at the Unversity of Virginia.

The People History - News and events by decade.

Calisphere - A World of Primary Sources and More - Includes text and digital images of photographs, posters, ephemera, and diaries from California history, including topics from the 1930s and 1940s.

If you have a topic that might lend itself to visual representation (e.g., advertising in the 1930s), look for contextual material in Google Images.

Finding Background Information

Credo Reference - A good spot for overviews of topics.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Use for overviews and background information.

Oxford English Dictionary

Finding Books in Bowman Library

Bowman Library Catalog - Search by keyword or subject heading to find books in the Bowman Library collection. The following subject heading might be useful for this assignment.

• Nineteen thirties
• United States social conditions 1933-1945
• New Deal, 1933-1939
• African Americans (note there are many subheadings in this subject heading; you'll have to scroll through the lists to find ones appropriate to the period of the 1930s and 1940s)
• Cotton
• Harlem Renaissance
• Jazz history and criticism
• Japanese Americans evacuation and relocation

Finding Articles in Magazines, Newspapers, and Scholarly Journals

EBSCOhost - Contains articles from a wide array of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals.

Historical New York Times - Full text of The New York Times back to 1851; very useful for putting events into context in the time in which they occurred.

JSTOR - Scholarly articles.

Google Scholar - Provides access to scholarly literature only. Note that the full text is not available for all articles, but it can be ordered via Interlibrary Loan.

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