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Pop Culture (General)

The 1920s by Kathleen Drowne; Patrick Huber
Call Number: E169.1 .D796 2004
Publication Date: 2004
The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future. American Popular Culture Through History volumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index.

Sports

Books (including a few reference books)

Encyclopedia of Sports in America by Murry R. Nelson (Editor)
Call Number: Ref GV583 .E53 2009
Publication Date: 2008
This engaging reference traces the fascinating and often tumultuous growth of sports in America--how the icons, the commercial enterprises, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and era to era.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball by Jonathan F. Light
Call Number: GV862.3 .L54 1997
ISBN: 9780786403110
Publication Date: 1997
Articles covers such diverse topics as alcoholism in baseball, baseball in France, the dumbest player, perfect games, and famous players.
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Edward J. Rielly
Call Number: Ref GV867.64 .R52 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Baseball has brought us great players, great writers, and some really rotten calls. Baseball: an Encyclopedia of Popular Culture looks at American society through the prism of its favorite pastimes, discussing not only the game but also such issues as race relations, writing, drug abuse, entertainment, gambling, movies, and the change from rural to urban society.

Databases

SPORTDiscus (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, theses, and other media published 1800 – present; also books and book chapters from 1949 – present. Full text for some articles.

Music, Film & Literature

Books (including a few reference books)

Jazz by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
Call Number: ML3506 .W37 2000
Publication Date: 2002
Traces the history of jazz music from its origins in New Orleans through the twentieth century, and looks at the lives and contributions of some of the genre's greatest composers and performers.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Call Number: Ref PS153.N5 A24 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Contains approximately 370 alphabetically arranged entries covering the emergence of new ideas in literature, political thought, civil rights, racial pride, and the arts during New York City's Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz (Editor); Paul Finkelman (Editor)
Call Number: Ref NX512.3.A35 E53 2004 v.1-2
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz; Ronald Dean Nolen
Call Number: Ref PN1993.45 .K34 2012
Features alphabetically organized entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of movies, including style, genres, actors and actresses, directors, producers, and motion picture studios.
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio by Christopher H. Sterling (Editor); Cary O'Dell (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Comprised of more than 300 entries spanning the invention of radio to the Internet, this reference work addresses personalities, music genres, regulations, technology, programming and stations, the "golden age" of radio and other topics relating to radio broadcasting throughout its history.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Call Number: EBOOK
Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.

Databases

Grove Music Online (Oxford)
Comprehensive music reference tool incorporating New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Opera, New Grove Jazz, Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments; along with the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, which are part of the new Oxford Reference Online interface.

Now part of Oxford Music Online, the Grove music resources are the best place to start your music research.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

Art, Architecture & Fashion

Databases

Artstor
A collection of art images spanning many times and cultures, and including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and other visual media. Use of Firefox or Safari browsers is recommended.
AskART
Extensive biographical information about over 200,000 American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with International artists' auction records and images. Complete access to information about the artists’ biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads pre-1998, and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced.

Politics, Economics & Social Conditions

Books (including a few reference books)

The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History by Michael Kazin (Editor); Rebecca Edwards (Editor); Adam Rothman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781400833566
Publication Date: 2009-11-09
An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more. Each article, specially commissioned for this book.
African Americans in the Jazz Age by Mark Robert Schneider
Call Number: E185.6 .S36 2006
Publication Date: 2006
The victorious end to the first World War offered hope to African Americans who had fought for freedom abroad and hoped to find it at home. Mark Schneider recounts the history of this turbulent era, paying particular attention to the ways in which African Americans actively challenged Jim Crow and firmly expressed pride in their heritage.
America in the Twenties by Geoffrey Perret
Call Number: E784 .P44
Publication Date: 1982
Perrett brings to life the crosscurrents of change and innovation that marked America's transition from innocence to maturity: the rise of the unions and radicalism, the changing role of women, the recognition of Black America. He depicts the revolution in standards and taste that followed the creation of the movie, broadcasting and publishing industries; the rise of jazz, modern fiction and an unselfconscious sexuality; and the dawning of a new, nomadic American life. He also traces the decline in faith, the collapse of old ideals, the loss of community and all the mixed blessings of liberation and mechanical progress that characterized the era. In them he recognizes the side-by-side existence of the old and the new and points to the conflicts, tensions and sense of excitement that this duality created.
Discontented America by David J. Goldberg
Call Number: E784 .G65 1999
Publication Date: 1999
In Discontented America, Goldberg integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascinating decade should be viewed now as it was viewed then, as a distinctive postwar period, during which many of the conflicts generated by World War I continued to reverberate throughout American society.
Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The 1920's by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, David Brody, editors
Call Number: E784 .B7
Publication Date: 1968
Babbitts and Bohemians: the American 1920's. by Elizabeth Stevenson
Call Number: E784.S7 B3
Publication Date: 1967
Social history of U.S. life and culture during the decade, a period marked by mass conformity as well as rebellion, and exceptional development.

Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Indexes scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations in the history of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Full-text for over 225 journals, and 85 books.
Economist Historical Archive (1843-2015)
The Economist Historical Archive ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Containing every issue since its launch in 1843 and more than 600,000 pages, EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys. Altogether this is an unrivaled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sage Journals
Sage provides current access to around 800 electronic peer-reviewed journal titles across many disciplines. Particular strengths include Criminology, Education, Industrial Relations and Labor, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Sociology and Urban Studies.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,00 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.

Science, Technology & Medicine

Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Indexes scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations in the history of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Full-text for over 225 journals, and 85 books.
Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.
JSTOR
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,00 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.

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