The Grapes of Wrath Pathfinder
Biographies are located in the Biography section of the Media Center and are arranged alphabetically by the subject’s last name.
General books on the 1930s are located in the Dewey numbers:
909.82
917.3
917.91
973.91
Check the card catalog for specific topics in the 1930s. The following are some of the subject headings you may find useful:
Agriculture--Great Plains--History
Depressions--1929--United States
Droughts--Great Plains--History
Dust Storms--History
Fashion--History--20th Century
Great Depression--1929-1939
New Deal--1933-1939
Nineteen Thirties
Roosevelt, Eleanor--1884-1962
Roosevelt, Franklin D.--1882-1945
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945
United States--History--1919-1933
United States--History--1933-1945
United States--Social life and customs--1919-1933
Use a keyword search if you do not find what you are looking for in a subject search. Once you find a book that meets your criteria, click on the subject headings in the card catalog record for similar books.
| R 300 SO | Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources |
| R 302.2345 TE | Television in American Society Reference Library |
| R 303.48 AM | American Social Reform Movements Reference Library |
| R 330.973 DE | Depression America |
| R 909.82 GR | Great Events, 1920-1939 (Volume 2) |
| R 973.03 AM | American Culture and Intellectual History |
| R 973.03 DI | Dictionary of American History |
| R 973.03 EN | Encyclopedia of American History (Volume 8) |
| R 973.03 EN | Encyclopedia of American Studies |
| R 973.9 AM | American Decades, 1930-1939 |
| R 973.9 AM | American Decades: Primary Sources 1930-1939 |
| R 973.9 BO | Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America (Volume 2) |
| R 973.9 GR | Modern America: 1914-1945 |
| R 973.9 ST | St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |
| R 973.903 EN | Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twenitieth Century |
| R 973.91 BU | The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History |
| R 973.91 YO | The 1930s |
| R 973.916 EN | The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression |
| R 973.917 CL | The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal |
| R 973.917 GR | Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library |
American Heritage Index
| VC 973.9 CE | The Century: The 30s: Stormy Weather (1929-1936), Volume 3 |
| VC 973.9 CE | The Century: Over the Edge (1936-1941), Volume 3 |
| VC 973.917 AM | America Lost and Found |
| VC 973.917 YE | Yesterday 1933 |
To access the Media Center research databases and eBooks, go to nfuse.whrhs.org, or select the Technology link at the top of the WHRHS home page. Log in with your username and password, select the Media Center folder and click on the appropriate database icon.
Databases
ABC-CLIO
• American Government
• American History
Biography Resource Center
EBSCOhost
• Biography Collection Complete
• History Reference Center
• Literary Reference Center
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
• ProQuest Learning: Literature
• History Study Center
Facts on File
• American History Online
• American Women’s History Online
• Bloom's Literary Reference Online
JSTOR
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Student Resource Center Bronze
• Literature
• U.S. History
eBooks
ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
• United States History: 20th and 21st Centuries
• Society and Education
Gale Virtual Reference Library
• American Decades, 1930-1939
• American Decades: Primary Sources 1930-1939
• American Social Reform Movements Reference Library
• Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th Century America
• Dictionary of American History
• Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
• Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
• Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
• Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library
• Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression
• History in Pursuit, Vol. 3: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945: Pursuit of Progress
• Roaring Twenties Reference Library
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• Television in American Society Reference Library
Web Sites
• General 1930s Sites
• Advertisments
• Architecure
• Art
• Automobiles
• Comics
• Dust Bowl
• Farming
• Fashion
• Minority Groups
• Movies and Theater
• Music
• The New Deal
• Okies
• Photography
• Radio and Television
• Social Security
• Sports
• Women of the 1930s
• Works Progress Administration
To access additional web sites on the 1920s, click on the link below:
• Great Depression and New Deal
General 1930s Web Sites
America in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
American History - 1930-1939
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html
Advertisments
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess
The Advertising Archives - 1930s
http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_1930s.php?PHPSESSID=e7cbe9bf880ac0589dfae24b6cc0b7e7
Camel Cigarette Advertising 1930s
http://indymotorspeedway.com/cigs/1930s.html
Antique Maps & Prints from PastPresent Gallery
http://www.pastpresent.com/ormagcov.html
Advertising's Portrayal of Women in the Workplace from the 1930s to the 1950s
http://www.loyno.edu/history/journal/1988-9/preston.htm
Familial Gender Roles During the Great Depression: Images in Advertising During the 1930s
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~patdeni/advertisementpage.htm
History of Advertising in America in the 1930s and 1940s
http://www.trivia-library.com/a/history-of-advertising-in-america-in-the-1930s-and-1940s.htm
Architecture
Bricks & Brass: 1930s Architecture
http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/deshist/1930s/1930s.htm
American Architecture - 1930 to 1939 - Great Buildings Online
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/gbc_types/usa/usa_1930-1939.html
American Architecture, American Foursquare Style
http://www.realviews.com/homes/forsq.html
American Picture Palaces: The Thirties – Depression and Art Deco
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/thirties1.html
American Picture Palaces
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/thirties.html
Art
Art of the Great Depression
http://twecht.tripod.com/grapesofwrath/artofgd.htm
A Depression Art Gallery
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
The Art of the Great Depression
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG99/vizzuso/WPAproject.html
Automobiles
Styling and Design Of American Automobiles Throughout The 1930s
http://www2.let.uu.nl/solis/ams/xroads/auto.htm
1930's Car models and Prices for Cars: The People History
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/30scars.html
The Automtive Chronicles: Concepts from the 1930s, by Rob McLellan
http://www.automotivechronicles.com/conceptsandrumors/nov04.php
GM: 75 Years of Design - 1930's
http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/edu_k-12/5-8/making_vehicles/75_years_of_design.html
MSOE Library Exhibit: Classic Cars of the 1930s
http://www.msoe.edu/library/whats_new/1930s_cars
Comics
1930s:Cartoons
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/comic/cartoon.html
Comic Books and Their Adventures
http://www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com/comic-books.html
Dust Bowl
1930s Dust Bowl
http://www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbowl.html
Digital History | Guided Readings :1930s
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=69
The American Experience | Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Farming
Wessels Living History Farm & Farming in the 1930s
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/farminginthe1930s.html
1930s, America - Feminist Void?
http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1988-9/moran.htm
Fashion
Mens Fashions of the 1930s
http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1930mens.html
Ladies Fashions of the 1930s
http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1930ladies.html
Women's Fashion in the 1930s - With a Swing
http://just-the-swing.com/liv/dressing/womens-fashion/wf-1930s
Men's Fashion in the 1930s - With a Swing
http://just-the-swing.com/liv/dressing/mens-fashion/mensfash
1930s Fashion History, Costume Images and Social History
http://www.fashion-era.com/1930s/index.htm
Minority Groups
Race During the Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/race/race.html
The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Core
http://newdeal.feri.org/aaccc/index.htm
Movies and Theater
Art and Entertainment During the 1930s
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/art/art.html
The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (Hays Code)
http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html
Having Fun - Movies during the 1930s
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_16.html
Film History of the 1930s
http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html
1930s Decade - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n2_v14/ai_15588717
Music
Music in the United States in the 1930s
http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/historical/1930s.html
Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug03/Jukebox/front.html
Country Music in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/cwmain.html
PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Jazz in Time - The Great Depression
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_depression.htm
Music: 1930's
http://library.thinkquest.org/5255/1930s/1930introduction.htm
The New Deal
New Deal Network: New Deal Document Library
http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/default.cfm
The American Presidency - Encyclopedia of American Studies: The New Deal
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=1003290-h&
Successes and failures of Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/projects/depression/successes.html
New Deal Cultural Programs
http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html
Outline of U.S. History: The New Deal and World War II
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/newdeal.htm
1930s Country, Blues, Gospel, Bluegrass, Pop
http://www.southernmusic.net/1930.htm
Okies
Okies: Dust Bowl Migrants from Oklahoma & the Plains
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_06.html
Steinbeck's Myth of The Okies by Keith Windschuttle
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/jun02/steinbeck.htm
The Migrant Experience
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html
Dust Bowl Migration Digital Archives
http://www.lib.csub.edu/special/dustbowl.html
The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty and Race Stories
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/dust%20bowl%20migration.htm
Dust Bowl Legacies: The Okie Impact on California, 1939-1989
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/legacies.pdf
Photography
Photographs of the Great Depression
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm?once=true&
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Photos of the Great Depression and the New Deal
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/gdphotos.html
Dust Bowl Okies
http://www.dougloudenback.com/dustbowl/dustbowlokies.htm
FSA Photographers Document the Great Depression
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_14.html
Documenting America: Photographs from the FSW-OWI, 1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
The Photographers: Roy Stryker
http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/photog14.html
Radio and Television
Having Fun - Radio During the Depression
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_15.html
TIME 100: Philo Farnsworth
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html
History of Television - Mitchell Stephens
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/History%20of%20Television%20page.htm
The History Of Television
http://www.thehistoryoftelevision.com
Social Security
Social Security Online History Pages
http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html
Social Security Reform Center - History
http://www.socialsecurityreform.org/history/index.cfm
NOW | Politics & Economy | Social Security: History and Landmark Legislation | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/socialsechistory.html
Congressional Institute - Social Security Reform: Issues and Values
http://www.conginst.org/socialsecurity/ISSUES/IVpage7.html
Legislative History of Social Security Act Prepared by CRS
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/socwelf/ss2000.htm
Social Security: A Program and Policy History - Social Security Bulletin
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m6524/is_1_66/ai_n15796046
Sports
Sports in the 1930's
http://www.sportplanet.com/sbb/apfas/30R.HTM
1930s: Sports and Games
http://www.bookrags.com/research/1930s-sports-and-games-bbbb-02
History: Pro Football Draft History - The 1930s
http://www.profootballhof.com/history/general/draft/1930s.jsp
The American Experience | Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/filmmore/reference/interview/allen07.html
American Experience | Seabiscuit | Mammals & Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/seabiscuit/mammalsevents/e_depression.html
American Experience | Seabiscuit | Mammals & Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/seabiscuit/mammalsevents/m_seabiscuit.html
Women of the 1930s
American Women through Time: 1930-1939
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/time/wh-1930s.html
Works Progress Administration
Work Projects Administration - HighBeam Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-WorkProj.html
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1599.html
WPA: Works Progress Administration - A Short History
http://www.steamships.org/wpa/index.htm
TN Encyclopedia: Works Progress Administration
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=W087
The Works Progress Administration & the Federal Theatre Project
http://www.mvhsdrama.com/FTP.htm
Advertising's Portrayal of Women in the Workplace from the 1930s to the 1950s
http://www.loyno.edu/history/journal/1988-9/preston.htm