To Kill a Mockingbird Pathfinder Ideas for Research REQUIRED Databases for Research

To Kill a Mockingbird Pathfinder Ideas for Research

Civilian Conservation Corps & New Deal Harper Lee Civil Rights Jim Crow Laws Duluth Lynchings Ku Klux Klan Dust Bowl Prohibition Eleanor & Franklin Delano Roosevelt Scottsboro Boys Trial The Great Depression Stock Market Crash of 1929

REQUIRED databases for research:

Britannica Online Academic

Gale - Discovering Collection

Be sure to print off your sources.

Additional websites for research:

Information about the Civilian Conservation Corps and New Deal:

The New Deal from the National Archives Links to web sites relating to the New Deal era for research on New Deal agriculture, labor, and arts programs.

Information about Civil Rights:

African-American Resources on the Internet Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement NAACP Documenting the American South – primary sources from the University of North Carolina

Information about the Duluth Lynchings:

Duluth News Tribune/Newsbank Minneapolis Star Tribune/Newsbank This collection of Duluth News Tribune articles is located with the Duluth Public Library databases. The password is on the gold tag taped to your computer. Sort by oldest date first. Search Duluth Lynchings or Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial – Official Site

Minnesota Historical Society – Duluth Lynching

Information about the Dust Bowl:

American Memory—Library of Congress—Voices from the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl—PBS

Information about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt:

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Information about The Great Depression:

Timeline of the Great Depression

Information about Harper Lee:

Biography In Context This Duluth Public Library database has great biographic articles that come from reference books. You’ll find chronological events from the Presidents’ lives as well as magazine articles, pictures, and web sites. The password is on the gold tag taped to your computer. Choose Biography In Context from the list.

Harper Lee today: An article from The New York Times about Harper Lee.

Information about Jim Crow Laws:

Jim Crow History Websites

Remembering Jim Crow—American Radio Works

Rise and Fall of Jim Crow--PBS

Information about the Ku Klux Klan:

About the Ku Klux Klan - Anti-Defamation League KKK Timeline

Information about Prohibition:

Temperance and Prohibition—Information about the prohibition of alcohol from Ohio State University

FBI History

Information about the Scottsboro Trial:

Famous American Trials

The Scottsboro Trial The Scottsboro Trial -2- The Scottsboro Trial - Timeline

Information about the Stock Market Crash of 1929:

The Crash of 1929 – The American Experience video

Stock Market Crash - PBS

Information about the 1930s:

History of the United States – The Great Depression and the New Deal American Memory Collection America in the ‘30s—University of Virginia The People History—1930s

CITING Models Taken from the East Library Page – Citing Resources

For Britannica:

Marsh, Dave. “Elvis Presley.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.

For Discovering Collection:

Isaacs, Jonathan D., and Neil D. Isaacs. “Presley, Elvis Aron (1935-1977).” Encyclopedia

of World Biography. Ed. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research,

1998. Discovering Collection. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.

For a webpage:

“Elvis’ Life In Music.” Elvis Presley: Official Site of the King of Rock n’ Roll. Elvis

Presley Enterprises, 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.

For Print :

Guranick, Peter. Careless Love: the Unmaking of Elvis Presley. Boston: Little, Brown

and Company, 1999. Print.

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