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 PATHFINDERS               
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.

Twenties

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search.  You might try searching for 1920s, twenties, prohibition, flappers, etc.

 Some titles we have are:

363.4
LIE		 Lieurance, Suzanne.  The Prohibition Era in American History.  Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2003.
364.1
KIN		 King, David C.  Al Capone and the Roaring Twenties.  Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 1999.
973.91
FEI		 Feinstein, Stephen.  The 1920s: From Prohibition to Charles Lindbergh. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001.
973.91
JAZ		 The Jazz Age: The 20s.  Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1998.
973.91
ROA		 The Roaring Twenties. New York: Greenhaven Press, 2004.
REF
306.097
BOW		 Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America.  (v.2 1920 - 1930)  Detroit: UXL, 2002.
REF
973.9
AME		 Drowne, Kathleen Morgan and Patrick Huber.  The 1920s.  Westport, CT, 2004.
REF
973.91
STR		 Streissguth, Thomas.  The Roaring Twenties: An Eyewitness History.  New York: Facts on File, 2001.


SELECTED WEB SITES  

American Cultural History - Decade 1920-1929
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
This Kingwood College Library site has links to art & architecture, events and people, books and literature, music, fashion and fads, and theater, film and radio of the 1920s.

20th & 21st Century America
 http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm
This site is posted by a teacher from Texas.  Click on "The Roaring Twenties" for information on the 1920s, or try "1950-Present" for more current information to compare to the 1920s.

Famous American Trials
 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrialsftrials.htm
This site has information on the Black Sox Trial, Scopes Trial, and Sacco-Vanzetti Trial.

Fashion-Era
http://www.fashion-era.com/
Contains 90 illustrated and content-rich pages of information on the costume, clothing,
textiles and social history of fashion.

Best of History Websites (an EdTech Teacher Resource)
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1900/roaring-20s
"Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access
to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has
been designed to benefit history teachers and their students."

Shmoop
 http://www.shmoop.com/literature/
"An educational website for high school and college students, created by Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford and Berkeley."
Contains information on Literature, Poetry and U.S.History.

 *Check out the MHS Pathfinder on Decades for information on other 20th century time periods.

 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.

   eLibrary (currently unavailable)
     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 several other Massachusetts newspapers.

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
01/06/10
Date last edited
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