American Literature Background A Modern America (1914 - present)

Specific Websites
Modernism Perspectives in American Literature: Early Twentieth Century: American Modernism Perspectives in American Literature: Harlem Renaissance Perspectives in American Literature: Late Twentieth Century Norton Anthology of American Literature:  American Literature Between the Wars, 1914-1945 Norton Anthology of American Literature:  American Prose Since 1945 1900-1929:  Progressive Era, Immigration, World War I, 1920's 1929-1930:  Depression 1945-1950: Atomic Age and Cold War 1950-1959:  1950's 1960-1969 1960's 1970-1979: 1970's 1980- 2000:  1970's, 1980's, 1990's
American Literature on the Web American Memory Historical Collections Biography.com
Other Electronic Sources
BCPS Digital content (Obtain a login and password from your library media specialist)) look in:	Baltimore County Public Library Databases (BCPL library card barcode number needed to access these) Biography Resource Center Encyclopedia Americana Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Online Interactive Information Service (Available as a cooperative service of Maryland libraries) AskUsNow
Recommended Reference Resources (Print)
Dictionary of American History (Scribner's) Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier) American Eras Series (Gale) American Decades Series (Gale) Literature and Its Times (Gale) Drama for Students (Gale) Nonfiction for Students (Gale)	Novels for Students (Gale) Poetry for Students (Gale) Short Stories for Students (Gale) Literary Lifelines (Diagram) American National Biography (Scribner's) Dictionary of American Biography (Scribner's) Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale)
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