American Literature Links

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     Author Research

• www.poets.org ~ The Academy of American Poets

• www.poetryfoundation.org ~ Poetry Foundation

• www.ipl.org ~ Internet Public Library ~  (Formerly the Librarian's Internet Index) A good site for finding quality websites covering a wide array of topics.

• A Glossary of Literary Criticism  ~ Hosted by SIL International, a nonprofit group that promotes language-based development through research, translation, and literacy, this online glossary defines many literary criticism terms.

• Paul P. Reuben Website: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature -- A Research and Reference Guide
  Students of American literature will find a wealth of literary criticism resources at this site, part of the larger Perspectives in American Literature site by Paul Reubens, an English professor at California State University, Stanislaus.

• American Literary Resources ~ General literary sites, plus extensive list of web pages on individual authors, from Rutgers University (NJ).

    1920's Research

• Prohibition/Capone http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html

• Speakeasies http://www.teachingcompany.com/cp4/TKFieldman.html

• Temperance and Prohibition: Women's History http://womenshistory.about.com/od/temperance/

• Food of the 20's http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1920s

• Soft Drinks in the 1920's http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091699.htm

• Classic Cooking in the 1920's http://www.classic-cooking-school.com/

• Flappers' Fashion http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

• Fashion in the 20's http://alliance.ed.uiuc.edu/cdrom/Hononegah/Fashion_Folder/FASHION-S.HTM

• Men’s fashion of the 20's http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1920mens.html

• Fads and Fashion http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/fads.html

1930's Research

• America in the 1930's Timeline http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html

• Farming in the 1930's http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html

• Dust Bowl photos http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/

• Stock Market Crash http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

• The Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html

• Art & Entertainment during the 1930's http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/art/art.html

• F.D.R. and the New Deal http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.html