REFERENCE / PRINT RESOURCES
R 306 Bow Bowling, Beatniks & Bellbottoms, v.2 1920s-1930s
R 391 Her Fashions of a Decade - The 1920s
R 700 Abe Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
R 809.9 Lit Literature and its Times, v.3
R 909.82 His History in Dispute, v.3
R 917.39 Tim This Fabulous Century 1920-1930
R 920 Enc Encyclopedia of World Biography
R 920 Ver The International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography
R 973.003 Con Conflicts in American History: a Documentary Encyclopedia v.VI
R 973.9 Gor American Chronicle 1920-1980
R 973.92 Ame American Decades 1920-1929
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

Prepared by: NSHS Library Staff / February 2012         www.newton.k12.ma.us/nshs/library/
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WEBSITES
PBS Jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Library of Congress Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929       
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress

The History Channel 1920s http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties

A Biography of America The Twenties http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/feature/

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum The Roaring 20s http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/index.html

Digital History The Jazz Age: The American 1920s http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?TitleID=67

Clash of Cultures 1910s and 1920s http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm

ONLINE DATABASES
Biography in Context

Grolier online
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Massachusetts Newsstand    
Massachusetts newspapers: The Boston Globe (1980 - ), The Boston Herald (1991 -), Telegraph & Gazette(1989 - ), The Patriot Ledger (1991 - ), The Lowell Sun, etc.

New York Times   Archive
Find articles in the public domain from NYT 1851-1980

ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases  
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Student Resources in Context
Full text articles from a variety of reference sources, primary sources, images, etc.

U.S. History in Context     

 

eBOOKS
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American Decades 1920-1929

American Decades Primary Sources 1920-1929

Bowling, Beatniks & Bellbottoms

Fashion, Costume, and Culture

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History, Vol. 2

Harlem Renaissance

Roaring Twenties Reference Library



MUSIC CDs
CD 700 Rha Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance