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 PATHFINDERS           TOP
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on 
a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their 
research project.

RED SCARE, 1919-1920

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the name of the topic or person you want to search.  Try searching keywords for events that took place during that time period such as red scare, or the Sacco and Vanzetti court case.  Try specific subjects such as: Nineteen hundreds (Decades); Nineteen tens; United States--History--1913-1921; United States--Civilization--1910-1919 etc.

Some titles we have are:

320.973 LIV Maus, Derek C. Living Through the Red Scare. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, [2006].
342.7308 FIN Finan, Christopher M. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act : a History of the Fight for Free Speech in America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, [2007].
345.73 MON Monroe, Judy. The Sacco and Vanzetti Controversial Murder Trial : A Headline Court Case. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Pub., [2002].
REF
909.82
GRE		 Great Events from History, the Twentieth Century, 1901-1940.  (5 vol.) edited by Robert F. Gorman. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008.
REF
973
GRE		 Great Events From History. American Series. (3 vol.)  edited by Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1975. 
REF
973.9
AME		 America in the 20th Century. (12 vols. +index)  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2003.
    (look in vols. 2v.1910-1919 & v.3. 1920-1929) 
REF
973.9
AME		 American Decades: 1910-1919.  edited by Vincent Tompkins. Detroit, MI: Gale, [1996].

SELECTED WEB SITES

West's Encyclopedia of  American Law 
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/red+scare
 Defines the Red Scare.

Red Scare (1918-1921)
 http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/default.htm
"An image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately following World War I."

Travel & History (Red Scare)
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1343.html
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=438
Educational site for history teachers and students.

World War I Timeline  (Red Scare 1919)
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww1/1919b.html
From the History Dept. at  University of San Diego.

U. S. History Online
http://www.ushistory.org/us/47a.asp

Sparticus Educational
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAredscare.htm

 20th & 21st Century America
 http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm
 This site has many links to information on the Roaring Twenties and the Turbulent Thirties.  It was created by a Texas high school history teacher.
Famous Trials
 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
 Information on famous trials of the 20th century.

ONLINE RESOURCES

     InfoTrac® PowerSearch
     Contains databases of magazine articles, biographical resources, literature, health and
     business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Gale
     Biography In Context.

     Gale U.S. History In Context 
      Is a history database found in InfoTrac and contains "information on hundreds of the most         
      significant people, events and topics in U.S. History."

    eLibrary  [in library]  [from home]
     Full text database of magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts, pictures and
     maps. Find full text, up-to-date, published articles.

    ProQuest (Massachusetts Newsstand)
     Newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), 
     Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

    Grolier Online  [in library]  [from home]
      2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  
      Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where  
      you where you can find more information on your topic.

     Salem Press database-- (ask Librarian for password if using  from home).
      http://history.salempress.com/
     Search Salem Press reference sets:
         Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century
                                                 Notorious Lives
         Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century
         Milestone Document: American History
 

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
12/15/10
Date last edited
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