The Great Depression

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Print Resources
  • Most print resources on The Great Depression will be located in 330-339 and 973-978
  • Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog.

eBooks ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

Search Biography Resource Center for brief and extensive biographies, articles, and web resources about people in American and world life, both past and present.~ Search examples: Herbert Hoover,

Search Britannica Online for reference information in literature, science, social science, and history. Britannica Online also carries news stories from The New York Times. ~ Reference articles

Chicago Tribune Historical Archive~ News stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included: Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file (nearly 3 million); major stories covering events and issues clipped and indexed by the Chicago Tribune staff at time of publication. Coverage is from the 1920's through 1984. Front pages (16,614 pages containing over 155,000 articles) - image of entire front page as it appeared when published from the early 1900 through 1984.

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Compton's Encyclopedia~ Easy-read reference articles

Search the Student Research Center for magazines, newspapers, reference articles, and primary documents. Search NoveList for reviews, annotations and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. ~ Magazine and newspaper articles

Use eLibrary to search for magazine and newspaper articles along with a variety of media including maps, images, audio/video, and television/radio transcripts.~ Reference articles, magazines, newspapers, images, and TV/radio transcripts

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Gale Virtual Reference Library ~ Search a large collection of eBook Reference materials.

Historical newspapers including The Chicago Daily (Tribune), The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. ~ Historical newspapers including The Chicago Daily (Tribune), The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Search History Resource Center: US for reference information, periodical articles, primary sources, and multimedia items such as maps and images from United States history. ~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources

Search History Resource Center: World for reference information, periodical articles, primary sources, and multimedia items such as maps and images from ancient and modern world history. ~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources

Search Student Resource Center Gold for reference, periodical, and primary source articles as well as maps and images across all subject areas. ~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources

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Internet Resources

N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center, Park Ridge, IL
Created: Last update: Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org