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Online Resources

• People's Century
  Supplemental online resources for the PBS documentary series on the 20th Century. Includes summaries of the eras, an interactive time line and audio "eyewitness accounts".

• Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  Includes links to the Library of Congress' American Memory Project and additional primary source information on politics, foreign policy and cultural expression.

• Eyes on the Prize: The Story of the Movement
  Gives context, images, press coverage and related links for 26 major events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

• The 1960s: Images and information
  courtesy Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s library

• 20th - 21st Century sites: Literature
  Courtesy MIT Libraries

Videos

• The Presidents of a World Power, 1901-1992 (VHS)
  E176.1 .P7 1992 pt. 3
• The Progressive Movement (VHS)
  E766 .P76 1996 ; General
• The Great Depression and The New Deal (DVD)
  E806 .G743 2003 ; General
• Eyes On The Prize America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (VHS)
  E 185.615 .E94 ; Circulation Desk
• Vietnam, A Television History(VHS)
  DS 557.7 .V5 v.6 1993 ; Circulation Desk
• U.S. Politics 1960-1980 (DVD)
  E839.5 .U87 2003 ; General

Print Resources

History

• Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal
  James Ciment, editor : E806 .C543 2001 ; Reference
• Between The Wars: America, 1919-1941
  David A. Shannon : E 741 .S46 ; General
• Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America : From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War
  edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler : E181 .D33 2007 ; General
• Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 : How Americans Lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
  David E. Kyvig : E169 .K985 2004 ; General

Literature

• American History Through Literature, 1870-1920
  Tom Quirk And Gary Scharnhorst, Editors-In-Chief : PS217.H57 A843 2006 ; Reference
• Encyclopedia Of The Chicago Literary Renaissance
  Jan Pinkerton And Randolph H. Hudson : PS285.C47 P56 2004 ; Reference
• American Radical and Reform Writers
  edited by Steven Rosendale : PN451 .D5 v.303 2005 ; Reference
• The Beats, Literary Bohemians in Postwar America
  edited by Ann Charters : PN451 .D5 v.16 1983 ; Reference
• Contemporary Popular Writers
  editor, Dave Mote : PR478.P66 C66 1996 ; Reference
• Contemporary Southern Writers
  editor, Roger Matuz : PS261 .C569 1999 ; Reference
• Modern American Women Writers
  Elaine Showalter, consulting editor, Lea Baechler, A. Walton : PS151 .M54 1990 ; Reference
• Twentieth-Century American Western Writers
  edited by Richard H. Cracroft : PN451 .D5 v.206 1999 ; Reference

Additional Research Guides

• Researching the 1920s Era

• The 1960s

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