Productivity Tools

 

Noodle Tools

 

Turnitin.com


 

 Databases

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Try the Of Mice and Men article first

 

American History Online 

American Women’s History Online

Three search methods:

Explore Topic Centers

Browse Events and Topics, limit by Time Period

Advanced Search:  combine two ideas

 


EBSCOhost Web

 Select either Academic Search Premier or MasterFILE Premier


ProQuest

Use Advanced Search

Limit to Full-text articles

Watch Document type


Select Historical Newspapers for The New York Times  (1851-2008)

Match vocabulary to the time period; e.g. mentally defective, feebleminded, Negroes

 

 

 Steinbeck Websites


Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies

Hover over Of Mice and Men for the full contents

Places in Steinbeck’s Novels

Steinbeck Country

 


 
The Great Depression Websites

 

American Experience:  Surviving the Dust Bowl

Documenting America:  America From the Great Depression to World War II

The Migrant Experience

Photo Essay on the Great Depression

Photographs of the Great Depression

Picturing California's Migrant Children

Sliding Into the Great Depression

Songs of the Great Depression 

Voices From the Dustbowl


 

 

4/25/2012