Mr. Levin’s Great Starting Points for
Of Mice and Men,
John Steinbeck, and
The Great Depression

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Steinbeck and His Life and Times
Steinbeck Country
Other Steinbeck links of interest
The Great Depression 
Timelines and Photographs

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309.173 MEL                   
           Meltzer, Milton, 1915-.  Brother, can you spare a dime; : the
                Great Depression, 1929-1933.  New York, : Knopf, [1969].

338 GAR                       
           Garraty, John Arthur, 1920-.  The Great Depression : an inquiry
                into the causes, course, and consequences of the worldwide
                depression of the nineteen-thirties, as seen by
                contemporaries and in the light of history.  1st ed.  San
                Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986.  On t.p.: An
                inquiry into the causes, course, and consequences of the
                worldwide depression of the nineteenthirties, as seen by
                contemporaries and in the light of history.

338.54 GAL                    
           Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-.  The great crash, 1929.  Boston,
                : Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

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338.54 HIE                    
           Hiebert, Ray Eldon.  The stock market crash, 1929; : panic on
                Wall Street ends the jazz age,.  New York, : F. Watts,
                [1970].  Describes the 1929 stock market crash with emphasis
                on the nine most important days between September 3 and
                November 13. Discusses briefly the causes and effects of the
                crash.

338.54 LAN                    
           Landenburg.  THE PROSTERITY AND DEPRESSION DECADES.

338.54 SPE                    
           Sperling.  GREAT DEPRESSIONS: 1837-1844.

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338.54 YAS                    
           Yass.  THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

973.917/BOARDMAN              
           Boardman, Fon Wyman, 1911-.  The thirties; America and the Great
                Depression.  New York, : H. Z. Walck, 1967.

973.917 GRE                   
           The Great Depression : opposing viewpoints.  San Diego :
                Greenhaven Press, c1994.  Uses primary sources to debate the
                Great Depression.

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973.917 Ren                   
           Rensberger, Susan, 1953-.  A multicultural portrait of the Great
                Depression.  Tarrytown, N.Y. : Benchmark Books, c1996. 
                Describes the history of the Great Depression from the
                vantage point of minorities and women.

R 909 PUR                     
           Purnell.  PURNELL'S HISTORY OF 20TH CENTURY VOL. 3.

R 973 DAN                     
           Danbury.  THE AMERICAN DESTINY VOL. 14.

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RB 324.97 RUN                 
           Running for president : the candidates and their images.  New
                York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.  Vol. 1. 1789-1896 -- v. 2.
                1900-1992.  A study of American presidential campaigns which
                features essays about each election from George Washington's
                appointment in 1789 to the Clinton/Bush contest in 1992, and
                includes examples of political memorabilia from every run
                for office.

RB 338.54 NEW                 
           THE DEPRESSION YEARS.

RB 901 DAN                    
           Daniel.  CHRONICLE OF TH3 20TH CENTURY.

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RB 973.9 TIME                 
           THIS FABULOUS CENTURY 1920-1930.

RB 973.9 TIME                 
           THIS FABULOUS CENTURY 1920-1930.

RS 940.5 NIC                  
           Nicholls.  POWER.

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RS 973.9 MAL                  
           Maltby.  PASSING PARADE.

RS 973.9 TWE                  
           Twentieth-century America.  Grolier, c1995.  Contains news as it
                was written at the time, offering insights into how events
                are recorded... and sometimes mis-recorded... and how our
                interpretation of the world in shaped by journalists.  v.1
                Reform, War, and Peace 1901 - 1929; v.2 The Great Depression
                1929 - 1939; v.3 World War II 1939 - 1945; v.4 The Cold War
                at Home and Abroad 1945 - 1953; v.5 The Eisenhower Years
                1952 - 1960; v.6 Civil Rights and the Great Society 1961 -
                1967; v.7 From Woodstock to Watergate 1968 - 1974; v.8 The
                Crisis of the National Confidence 1974 - 1980; v.9 The
                Reagan Era 1981 - 1988; v.10 An Uneasy Peace 1988 --.

RS 973.91 FEI                 
           Feinstein, Stephen.  The 1920s : from prohibition to Charles
                Lindbergh.  Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2001.  A
                chronicle of the 1920s, including the fads, triumphs,
                tragedies, and fashions of that decade.

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RS 973.91 FRE                 
           Freeman, Charles.  The 1930s.  London : Batsford, 1990.  A
                chronology of the decade including world headlines, news,
                sport and arts, and science and technology.

RS 973.91 WIL                 
           Williams.  PORTRAIT OF A DECADE-THE 1920'S.
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From the Internet

Steinbeck and His Life and Times

Biography of Steinbeck
URL:http://www.Steinbeck.org
Steinbeck's Biography and Times
URL:http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
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Steinbeck Country

Steinbeck Country
URL: http://www.mbay.net/~etrosow/
Map of Salinas
URL:http://www.infopoint.com/mry/orgs/Steinbeck/map.html
Places in Steinbeck's novels
URL: http://www.monterey.edu/othersites/history/steinbeckplaces.html
Steinbeck homes and locations
URL: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/homhnts.html
History of Salinas Valley
URL: http://www.broccoli.com/farm/sal_val_pisto_article.htm
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Other Steinbeck links of interest

Of Mice and Men Chapter summaries
URL:http://www.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/mice.html
Steinbeck and Film
URL:http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?Steinbeck%2C%20John
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The Great Depression  (This web site offers thousands of leads to the Great Depression.)

On the About network: the great depression
http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms=the%20great%20depression

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Timelines and Photographs

20th Century Year by Year
http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html

African American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html

American History Timeline
http://historytimeline.com/Norm/normindex.htm

Collection Connections: America from the Great Depression to World War II--Critical Thinking
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/collections/fsa/thinking.html

Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html

Documenting America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html

People's Century
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/

Subject Index for FSA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fsasubjindex1.html

Welcome to The WIRE - News from the Associated Press
http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/20thcentury/00galveston.html

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