TKAM INFO

TKAM Research Resources

*Note: Many of the web resources listed include links to many topics but may be listed in one category based on the primary subject of the site. In other words, check all links for info on your topic.

GENERAL RESOURES FOR ALL TOPICS

*To Kill a Mockingbird – A Student Survival Guide – Click on Related Links to find numerous links on various topics related to the novel including the Scottsboro Boys, The Great Depression, FDR, Alabama, and Harper Lee. Many links include photography collections from the time period. http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/

General Research for all topics!! Montclair HS Library: http://www.mohigh.com/tkam-resources.html

ProQuest –is a subscription database that allows you to search 8 different encyclopedias. Go to http://www.proquestk12.com/

Username is 07-3201, password is bigchalk. You can search all encyclopedias for your topic by using the box on the bottom right or choose one of 8 encyclopedias to search.

MLA Citation Information:

MLA Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/

Knight Cite: http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

Noodle Tools: http://noodletools.com/

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Library of Congress’s American Memory Website– 160,000 photographs of America from the Great Depression to World War II Over 160,000 Photographs are featured. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

I Remember…Reminiscences of the Great Depression – http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53511–,00.html

THE DUST BOWL

The Dust Bowl – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/

1930’s Stock Market Crash

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/47662/stock_market_crash_of_1929_the_week.html?cat=37

The Chicago World’s Fair 1933-34 http://www.futurliner.org/fair.htm

New York World’s Fair 1939

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/display/39wf/frame.htm

Notable figures from 1930’s history & Popular writers of the time

1932: Amelia Earhart http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/earhart/EX29.htm

HARPER LEE & TRUMAN CAPOTE

Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird – This well-researched site including articles and links ion Harper http://www.notesinthemargin.org/fiction_notes/lee_harper/

Harper Lee Biography – http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm

Truman Capote Biography – http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

PBS Documentary on Truman Capote – http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html

THE AMERICAN SOUTH (Society & Culture)

Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) – Current links to hundreds of other websites on Alabama history, politics, culture, and other topics. http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/netres.html

Culture/Pastimes in the 1930’s- Kingwood College Library American Cultural History 1930 – 1939- (copy and paste this link) http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html

Slang in the 1930’s- see any words we still use today? http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA04/hess/Slang/slangsplash.html

Lou Gehrig & Joe DiMaggio

http://www.joedimaggio.com/

National Nego League

http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/history101.html

History of Baseball: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/12891/the_history_of_baseball_19301940.html?cat=14

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR)

FDR Biography from the White House Archives – http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html

FDR Presidential Library and Museum –

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html

The New Deal Network -an excellent source for information and images from the 1930s. Be sure to look into the Image Library while you’re there. You’ll find a series of photographs taken in 1938 in Carbon Hill, Alabama. http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

WPA (Work’s Progress Administration: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_16.html

HATE GROUPS / KKK

History of the KKK– There were actually three different Ku Klux Klan’s organized in the United States at separate times. http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm

Ku Klux Klan– The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders; its first meeting was held on Stone Mt., Ga. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859145.html

More Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (pronounced “koo klux klann” or “kyoo klux klann”) is the name of organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, anti-Communism and nativism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Tolerance.org – This website includes information on hate groups and KKK. Includes many links involving these issues. http://www.tolerance.org/maps/hate/index.html

1933: Adolf Hitler: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/named.htm

JIM CROW LAWS

The History of Jim Crow Laws – Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s to the 1950s. Click on American Literature for links to TKAM. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

The “Jim Crow” Laws – A list of some of the actual laws. http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/jim-crow-laws.htm

Historical Facts about the Jim Crow Laws – The origin of “Jim Crow” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Famous Trials – The Scottsboro Boys – http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

PBS Special – Scottosboro: An American Tragedy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

The Scottosboro Trials – http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html

CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 1920s & 1930s

An Interactive Civil Rights Chronology – This Yale University Web site presents a civil rights timeline from 1502 through 2000. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/brown/1502.html

Multnomah County Library HW Center – Civil Rights Resource Guide. Numerous links on various issues regarding this topic and others.

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/index.html

Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement – http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

The Role of Women in the 1930’s /Fashion Clothing & Designers

Typical Role of Women in the South: http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/time/wh-1930s.html

Typical Fashion / Men, Women, Children

http://www.fashion-era.com/stylish_thirties.htm

Fashion Designers

http://vintageclothing.about.com/od/designerstolookfor/tp/1930s-Designers.htm

Architecture of the 1930’s

Empire State Building

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/empirefacts.htm