ENTC 312: Online Resources

General:

• The IBIC Guide to Book-Related Resources on the Internet
• MLA online style guide
• Bestsellers 1900-1930 (full-text electronic editions from the Etext Center)
• Virgo
Virgo's "Other Databases" include the following licensed resources. To use them, log into Virgo:
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Best place to begin a search for biographical information. Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference sources, for subjects living & deceased in every field. Covers sources such as Dictionary of American Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc.)
• CARL Uncover (search titles, abstracts, for journal articles)
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media
• InfoTrak SearchBank (Expanded Academic Index)
• Readers' Guide Abstracts, 1983-present
• WebSPIRS (includes MLA Bibliography)

Authors:

• American Authors on the Web
• Museum of the City of San Francisco: Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty in California Movement
• Letters from Jack London to Upton Sinclair
• The Edna Ferber Home Page
• The Pearl S. Buck Project
• "A Trees Grows in Brooklyn: Francie Nolan's Spot on the Web
• John Steinbeck Page
• Joseph Heller (at Bohemian Ink)
• The Official Danielle Steel Site
• "A Tree Still Grows in Brooklyn," Robert Cornfield (New York Times Book Review, January 3, 1999)
• Douglas Coupland's Web Site
• And don't miss Matthew Perry reading Microserfs

Bibliography:

• "Descriptive Bibliography," by Terry Belanger
• "Descriptive Bibliography: An Online Tutorial" by Stephen Ramsay
• "Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology," Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
• "A Field Guide to the Faces," David Mundie
• "A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary," by G. Thomas Tanselle (Studies in Bibliography vol. 40, 1987)

  Book Awards:

• Literary Prizes (from Bookwire)

Book Search:

• Bibliofind

  Electronic Text of 20th-Century Fiction

• The Internet Public Library (searchable index)
• Modern English Collection at the Etext Center (UVa)
• The Online Books Page (searchable index)

History and Society:

• America from the Great Depression to WWII
• The American Experience: America 1900 (PBS)
• Chicago Growth, 1850-1990
• An Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History
• Fight For Union Recognition
• Historical Text Archive (20th Century), Mississippi State University
• Hyperhistory Online
• Labor Beat
• Labor Radio in Chicago (Real Audio)
• Labor History Articles (at The Illinois Labor History Society)
• Labor History Bibliography
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• Mother Jones: The Miners' Angel
• Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World
• A Short History of American Labor
• Sweatshops: Mark's No Sweat Page
• U.S. Labor History (at Yahoo)
• Voices from the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress/American Memory)
• Interview about Hog Killing in Arkansas
• Interview about the Story of Beefsteak

Labor Readings:

Part I:

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
  • The Day It Rained Bodies
  • Photographs from the Aftermath of the Fire (New Deal Network)
  • Triangle Strike and Fire
• MSNBC Sweatshop Journal: Now and Then Timeline
• MSNBC Sweatshop Journal: Undercover Diary

  Part II:

• Samuel Gompers, "Labor's Service to Freedom" (see also A brief biography of Gompers)
• George Alger, "Labor Must Decide" (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1940)
• Sumner Slichter, "What Do the Strikes Teach Us?" (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1946)
• Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation" (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994)
• Archibald Cox, "Strikes and the Public Interest" (The Atlantic Monthly, February 1960)
• Edward N. Wolff, "How the Pie is Sliced" The American Prospect no. 22 (Summer 1995): 58-64
• Gregg Easterbrook, "Voting for Unemployment" (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1983)

  Other (Recommended)

• The Chicago Stock Yards on the Eve of the CIO
• Lorin Deland, "The Lawrence Strike: A Study" (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1912)
• General Leonard Wood, "Americanism"
• "The Great Wobbly Drive" (The Bisbee Daily Review, Friday Morning, July 13, 1917)
• Anna Payne's Depostion

Manuscript Collections:

• National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections

Publishing:

• Bookwire's Guide to Book Publishers' Archives
• "Making the Charts," Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, Jul 1, 1997)
• 125th Anniversary Issue, Publisher's Weekly

Films:

• The Jungle (1914)
• The U.P. Trail (1920)
• So Big (1924)
• So Big (1932)
• So Big (1953)
• The Good Earth (1937)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974) (TV)
• Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
• The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) (TV)
• Changes (1991) (TV)