PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

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GRRRR!!!*

 

 

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The fun part!! You get to explore and read, read, read!!! Yea!!! Write your bibliography as you go along, so you don't have to do it all later. Read some primary sources to get the "feel" of the time period.

Click here for the Pelham Public Library collection

List of PHS Books for this project

 


General Resources

$Cost of Living compared to 2005

Burma Shave

Advertisements from 1930-1959

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Printed Ephemera from the Library of Congress

Online Resources by Decade:

 

 Links to the 1930's

 

America in the 1930's- great site! -University of Virginia Crossroads

WWW Virtual Library-1930-1939

American Cultural History- 1930's

1930's timeline

Surviving the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression by Paul Bonnifield

About the Dust Bowl- with map

Film History of the 1930's

Student Activism

Civilian Conservation Corps

World Wide Web Virtual Library-1930's Links

1930's Timeline

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO THE AMERICAN HISTORY DATABASE:

www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com

put in password (posted by computers)

Primary Sources -1930's

 

New Deal

FDR 1st Fireside Chat

Documenting the 30's- text & photos

Primary Sources by Era-Univ of OK

Lindberg Trial Transcripts

Riding the Rails-hobo tales

The Survey Graphic-Harlem Number

Anthology of 30's prose-excellent first hand accounts

U.S. History

PHOTOS

Dust Bowl

Woody Guthrie Lyrics

Mules and Men- Zora Neale Hurston

Comic Strips

Age of Lost Innocence Photos

Living Newspaper-Triple A Plowed Under

Survey Graphic 30's articles

1930's in print-great links

FDR Inaugural Address

Primary Sources by Era

Presidents

New Deal Document Library

LINKS TO THE 1940'S

WWW Virtual Library-1940-1950

Headlines from the 1940's

American Cultural History- 1940s

Graphic Timeline from the Ohio Historical Association-lots of ideas here!

Kilroy was here!

President Truman

The Atomic Bomb- primary documents

Superstars of the 1940's

Japanese Internment- San Francisco

Japanese American Internment-excellent site

Primary Documents for Japanese Internment

Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar War Relocation Center

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

It Was Everybody's War

Women Came to the Front

 

 

LINKS TO THE 1950'S

American Cultural History- 1950s

WWW Virtual Library- 1950-1959

Headlines from the 1950's

The Korean War

The Cold War- Harvard University

Elvis

Campaign Ad for Dwight Eisenhower

Levittown

1950's music

 

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The mission of Pelham High School is to educate students so that they may pursue life goals, participate fully as active citizens, and become socially responsible community members.

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center

bstrauss@pelhamsd.org