Of Mice and Men Group Research Project

Group 1. John Steinbeck

• National Steinbeck Center
• The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies

 

Group 2. Mental Impairments

• History of psychiatric hospitals
• Mental Health and Addiction

Group 3. Migrant Workers

• Library of Congress 
• Migration UC Davis
• www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immigration
• calisphere.org/exhibitions/57/hispanic-americans-migrant-workers/

 

Group 4. Salinas Valley/ “Okies”

A.    searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5494411

B.    vric.ucdavis.edu/virtual_tour/salinas.htm

C.     www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OK008

D.    faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/legacies.pdf

E.     depts.washington.edu/moving1/dustbowl_migration.shtml

F.     wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca7669

 

 Group 5. Women in the 1930’s

A. www.gilderlehrman.org/content/women-great-depression-investigating-assumptions

 

Group 6. The Great Depression

• www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-depression.cfm
• www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm
• fee.org/articles/the-great-depression/

 

Group 7. California, Hollywood, and the 1930's Culture

artsedge.kennedy-center.org/students/features/grapes-of-wrath/hollywood-and-radio-in-the-1930s

 

Group 8.  The Dust Bowl

• www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline
• www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/about-this-collection/
• www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/legacy/
• rooseveltinstitute.org/fdr-and-new-deal-response-environmental-catastrophe/
• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015056/