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Farmington High School
Mr. Brown
10th History
Year in Review: 1920-1940

Assignment Information:
This project may be done alone or in a group of up to three people.   It will be your job to portray the year you have drawn through

pictures, artifacts, drawings, old newspapers, music, newsreels, etc.  It may be presented by making a scrap book and presenting lit to the class, a poster board presentation to the class, or by videotape presented to the class.  This project will be worth 100 points.  You have three weeks to work on this project.
Topics that MUST be covered:
Politics and government
Economics
Entertainment
Sports
Literature
Every day life
Include all of the following in each category:
Your Family
Farmington High School
Farmington or Farmington Township
State of Michigan
United States
World Affairs

Our Print Resources:
[FH = Farmington Hills] [FA = Farmington] [REF = Reference Collection]
Farmington: A Pictorial History REF 977.438 & circulating FA & FH
Farmington Observer, 1909-1974 MICROFILM See Librarian Only at Farmington Branch!
New York Times 1851-Present Year See Librarian Only at Hills Branch!
History of Fascism 320.5 P FA
1929: The Year of the Great Crash 338.54 K FH
Florence Harding: The First Lady Biography Harding FA
Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding Biography Harding and 973.914 R FA & FH
Anxious Decades: Amerca in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 973.91 P FH
FDR the New Deal Years, 1933-1937 Biography Roosevelt FH
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny Biography Roosevelt FH
Great Depression:American in the 1930s 973.917 W FA
Promised Land: The Great Black Migration 973 L FA & FH
Hollywood 1930s 791.43 L FH
Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s 305.4 W FH
Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930s 782.8 G FH
Songs of the 1930s 784.5 S FA
Think Back on Us: A Comtemporary Chronicle of the 1930s 810.9 C FA
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s 978 W FA
Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People 784.4 L FH
GreatDay Coming: Memoir of the 1930s 335.43 D FH
Great Depression: America in the 1930s 973.917 W FA & FH
Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s 746.92 H FA
Famous Comedy Stars from the 1930s and 1940s Audiocassette--Shows FH
Fashions of a Decade: the 1930s 391.009 C FA & FH
Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's American Dispatches Biography Pyle FA
Songs of the 1920s 784.5 S FA & FH
American Heritage History of the 1920s and 1930s 973.91 A FA & FH
America and the Jazz Age: A History of the 1920s 973.914 B FA
Women of the Klan: Rascism and Gender in the 1920s 322.42 B FH
Setting a Course: American Women in the 1920s 305.409 B FH
Chronicle of the 20th Century 909.82 FA & FH
Chronicle of America REF 973 FA & FH
This Fabulous Century 1920-1930 REF 917.3 T & circulating FA & FH
This Fabulous Century 1930-1940 REF 917.3 T & circulating FA & FH

Web Resources
This Day in History Look at history of a specific decade
American Memory Search the historical collection of the National Digital Library from the Library of Congress
Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
National Historic Landmarks in Michigan
Michigan History from the Michigan Electronic Library
Michigan History Magazine
Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
Social Security Administration History
Swinging Through Time: The Graystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazz
Women Win the Vote
World History Archives
 
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