1919-1933

Examines the major works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with a primary focus on the 1920s and how it affected his writing.

Explores how African-Americans challenged Jim Crowe and expressed pride in their heritage during the years following World War I through the start of the Great Depression.

A variety of people who lived through the Great Depression describe their memories of that time.

Step back in time and witness a turbulent time period for the Unites States: the Great Depression through World War II. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Describes events of the Great Depression during the 1930s from three different perspectives, a government worker, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, and a twelve-year-old girl.

"The political ideas that resulted from confronting the crisis of the Great Depression and the New Deal of the early 20th century reshaped America. This documentary history collects a range of primary sources to illuminate this critical period in U.S. history"--Provided by publisher.

"A novel set in the 1930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie, a wealthy Boston socialite; Wilhelmina, a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine. In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide from his own war-time fate--facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal mask. This man will change Cora's life in wholly unexpected ways"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the United States involvement in World War I and the social changes that swept through the country in the beginnings of the modern era.