Mr. Durkin/Mr. Holzer/Mrs. Despines/Mrs. Rentschler
Feb. 2017
FDR New Deal Parade Float Project
Print Sources
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located using the online catalog, DESTINY at https://uscsd.follettdestiny.com (click high school)
o You can also access Destiny from STUDENT LINKS.
o eBooks on DESTINY are noted with an OPEN button. Click to read the book. You may be prompted to log
in with your USCHS credentials.
o You may also want to try general encyclopedias, located near the computers in the front of the Library,
and specialized encyclopedias located in the Reference 973 section.
On-line Databases
Keywords: New deal, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, specific title of action/act
History Reference Center
• From STUDENT LINKS, click onto History Reference Center. Use I.D.: uschs password: panther to log on.
• On the search page, you can limit your search to a certain time period to limit results if you wish.
• To cite articles, click the CITE button on the right sidebar in the article and scroll down for 7th edition MLA
format.
EBSCOhost’s Points of View
• From STUDENT LINKS, click onto Points of View.
• Use I.D.: uschs password: panther to log on.
• To cite articles, click the CITE button on the right sidebar in the article and scroll down for 7TH edition MLA
format.
Encyclopedia Britannica
• From STUDENT LINKS, click the Encyclopedia Britannica link. If needed, login: user I.D.: uschs
password: panther
• Choose the HIGH (for high school level).
• Type in your search at the top.
• To cite Britannica articles, click the CITE ARTICLE button at the top right. Choose 7th edition MLA format if
available.
JSTOR
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From STUDENT LINKS, click JSTOR. Enter the Username: uschs and Password: panther
Experiment with placing QUOTATIONS AROUND YOUR SEARCH TERMS. Sometimes it’s helpful;
sometimes not.
• You can search through ALL DISCIPLINES, or pick individual subjects in the “Limit by Discipline” area.
▪ Go to ADVANCED SEARCH
Type in search terms & then scroll down for “Narrow by discipline and/or publication
title”
Click the CITE THIS ITEM button for the citation. Be sure to tweak the citation to match the MLA 7th
edition style. Use the Green Sheet or ask for help.
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Student Resources in Context
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From STUDENT LINKS, click onto Student Resources in Context.
If you need log in credentials, use uschs and panther
Type in your search, click search, and then look to the right sidebar in your results page.
Your results are categorized by type. You may want to start with “Academic Journals” or “Critical
Essays.”
When you click on a result, again look at the right sidebar for TOOLS options and RELATED SUBJECTS
(for more links if needed). CITATION TOOLS offers an MLA citation---BUT IT IS NOT IN THE PROPER
MLA FORMAT! Use the MLA Green sheet online database section to cite articles. Ask for help if
needed!
Web Sites
Pittsburgh specific WPA projects:
https://livingnewdeal.org/us/pa/pittsburgh-pa/
Pennsylvania specific WPA projects:
https://livingnewdeal.org/us/pa/
You can also search this site for state/city projects across the U.S. Go to the top menu bar, click MAP, and choose
PROJECTS BY STATE AND CITY.
You can also search by WPA agency: go to MAP, and choose NEW DEAL AGENCIES.
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/built-by-new-deal.html
http://statemuseumpa.org/common-canvas/history.html
http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-1B&chapter=3
Fireside chats
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html Transcripts of all fireside chats
http://www.history.com/topics/fireside-chats
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-gives-first-fireside-chat
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/fireside.php
http://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/speeches/speech-3298
Primary Sources! National Archives: FDR's Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-fireside/
Civilian Conservation Corps http://www.ccclegacy.org/CCC_History_Center.html
http://www.history.com/topics/civilian-conservation-corps
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/ccc-introduction/ More CCC links on left sidebar
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/fall/ccc.html
https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/civilian-conservation-corps.htm
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/thingstoknow/history/cccyears/index.htm Pennsylvania
http://www.apps.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/ccc/ Pennsylvania
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=Civilian+Conservation+Corps Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Civilian%20Conservation%20Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
https://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/new-deal/relief-programs
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/fera.html
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/new-deal/timeline-terms/federal-emergency-relief-administration
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=Federal+Emergency+Relief+Administration Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Federal%20Emergency%20Relief%20Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/fdr-aaa/
https://www.pfb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49 Pennsylvania
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/agricultural-adjustment-act
http://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/agricultural-adjustment-administration/
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ag.003
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Agricultural%20Adjustment%20Act
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=65
https://www.tva.com/file_source/TVA/Site%20Content/About%20TVA/TVA_Act.pdf
https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1653.html
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Tennessee%20Valley%20Authority%20Act
http://wqed.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/95f644be-4af1-49c1-9840-f64b0afd5237/95f644be-4af1-49c1-9840f64b0afd5237/
https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/exhibits/exhibits-tva.html
Glass-Seagall Banking Reform Act (a.k.a. “Emergency Banking Act of 1933”)
http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/25
http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/23
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/repeal-glass-steagall-act-myth-reality
https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/09v15n1/0907silb.pdf
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Emergency%20Banking%20Act%20of%201933
National Recovery Administration
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3442
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=66
https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=616
http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/u-s-national-recovery-administration/
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-national-recovery-administration-2/
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=National+Recovery+Administration Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/National%20Recovery%20Administration
Public Works Administration
https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/pwa.cfm
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/infrastructure/c1.html
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=14671
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/new-deal/timeline-terms/public-works-administration
http://explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=1-9-1B&chapter=3 Pennsylvania
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=Public+Works+Administration Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Public%20Works%20Administration
Civil Works Administration
http://www.ushistory.org/us/49b.asp
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/33949
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/10674/15059
https://archive.org/stream/civilworksadmini00penn/civilworksadmini00penn_djvu.txt Pennsylvania
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/631777?journalCode=ssr
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Civil%20Works%20Administration
Works Progress Administration
http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/wpa-the-works-progress-administration/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-wpa/
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-creates-the-wpa
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos/
http://www.theartstory.org/org-wpa.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/works-progress-administration
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/new-deal/essays/wpa-antidote-great-depression
https://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/new-deal/recovery-programs/works-progress-administration
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=Works+Progress+Administration Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Works%20Progress%20Administration
National Labor Relations Act (a.k.a. Wagner-Connery Act or Wagner Act)
https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/our-history/1935-passage-wagner-act
https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/national-labor-relations-act
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=67
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Wagner-Connery_Act
https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/national-labor-relations-act.cfm
http://explorepahistory.com/search.php?keywords=National+Labor+Relations+Act Pennsylvania
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Wagner%20Act
Social Security Act
https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html
https://www.ssa.gov/history/law.html
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=68
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3446
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/search/gli_search/Social%20Security%20Act
New Deal
Interactive Periodic Table of the New Deal
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/periodictable.html
Top 10 New Deal Programs: Significant New Deal Programs to Combat the Great Depression By Martin Kelly,
About.com Guide
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/new_deal_programs.htm
Library of Congress New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/index.html
New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard © Copyright
Adams & Goldbard 1986, 1995 http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html
Digital Public Library of America: America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal Recovery Programs
http://dp.la/exhibitions/exhibits/show/new-deal/recovery-programs
MLA Quick Reference Card
Based on MLA 7th Edition
Revised February 2017
1. A book by one author
Gurko, Leo. Ernest Hemingway and the Pursuit of Heroism. New York: Crowell, 1968. Print.
2. A book by 2 or 3 authors (only reverse the first name listed)
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd
ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Print.
3. 2 or more books by the same author
MLA
7th
edition
Traversi, Derek A. An Approach to Shakespeare. Garden City: Anchor, 1969. Print.
---. Shakespeare: The Last Phase. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1955. Print.
4. A book with an editor
Silverberg, Robert, ed. Earth is the Strangest Planet: Ten Stories of Science Fiction. Nashville: Nelson, 1977.
5. A book with an Author AND an Editor (if you are citing the work of the author, begin with the author.)
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Claudia Johnson. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.
6. Introduction, Foreword, Preface, Afterword
See p. 5.5.8 in MLA Handbook 7th edition for more examples
Author of Introduction, Foreword, Preface, or Afterword. Part of book. Title of Book. By Author of Work. If Editor Ed.
Name. City: Publisher, copyright date. pages. Print.
Ogden, James. Introduction. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer. By Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. James Ogden. New
York: W.W. Norton, 2001. xi-xli. Print.
Hunter, Paul J. Preface. Mary Shelley Frankenstein. By Mary Shelley. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. vii-xii. Print.
7. An essay in a book of collected criticism—REMEMBER: Do NOT italicize the title of the
original work within a title of a book. FORMAT: Author OF ESSAY. “Title of essay.” Title of book, edited by Name, Publisher, Year, page range.
Parker, David. “Two Versions of the Hero.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:
Chelsea House, 1986. 29-44. Print.
8. An article in a PRINT magazine/journal
Author. “Title of article.” Magazine/Journal title volume number.issue number (year of publication): page numbers. Print.
Constanza, Robert. “Economics as a Life Science.” Bioscience 51.2 (2001):154-155. Print.
9. A signed article in a PRINT reference book (including encyclopedia entries)
Tobias, Richard. “Thurber, James.” Encyclopedia Americana. 14th ed. 2008. Print.
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"Best Dressed Women of All Time." Encyclopedia of Fashion. 3rd ed. 2003. Print.
11. A Book with a Translator
Clavino, Italo. The Uses of Literature. Trans. Patrick Creagh. San Diego: Harcourt, 1986. Print.
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Blackmun, Harry. Interview by Ted Koppel and Nina Totenberg. Nightline. ABC. WABC, New York,
5 Apr. 1994. Radio.
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Frost, Robert. North of Boston. 2nd ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co. 1915. Google Books. Web. 3 November 2010.
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Include Original Author. Title. Publisher, copyright date. Ebook.
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Penquin, 2010. Ebook.
17. Information from an online database (e.g. JSTOR, EBSCOhost, Points of View, World Book Online, etc.)
1. Author’s name (last name, first name). Period after the name.
2. “Title of the article.” with quotation marks and a period before the last quotation mark.
3. Name of the original source ---Title of the magazine or book (e.g. Exploring Novels, Cyclopedia of Characters,
Newsweek). Italicize. No period at the end.
4. If provided, volume number.issue number. Separate with a period but no space in between. No period at the end.
5. (Date of publication in parentheses): Colon at the end followed by page numbers. If no date, use n.d. no parentheses.
If no page numbers, put n.pag. Period at the end. (NOT n.pag..)
6. Name of the subscription database followed by a period & italicized (e.g. Gale Discovering Collection).
7. The word: Web. followed by a period.
8. Date of access (day month year). Period at the end.
9. If your teacher requires a URL address, place it in angle brackets, at the end of your citation, <Electronic address or
URL of database home page>. followed by a period.
10. If the source does not provide a piece of the required information, skip that part and go on to the next piece
of required information.
Examples with and without URL:
Rollins, Jill. “The Catcher in the Rye.” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1998): n. pag. Magill OnLiterature. Web. 27 Aug.
2009. *Note: The Catcher in the Rye is italicized because it’s a title within a title of an article.
Ashe, Frederick L. "Jane Eyre: The Quest for Optimism.” EXPLORING Novels (2003): n.pag. Gale Discovering Collection.
Web. 15 Jan. 2009. *Note: Jane Eyre is italicized because it’s a title within a title of an article.
Friess, Steve. “Deaf to the Problem." Newsweek 147.9 (2006):12. EBSCOhost Masterfile Premier. Web.
28 Feb. 2009. <http://web.ebsco.com>.
18. World Wide Web (Internet) citation
Author/Creator (if known). “Title of Page or Document.” Title of overall site. Publisher or sponsor of site/ if not
available, use n.p., (comma here) Date of publication (day month year) followed by a period; if no date,
use n.d. (followed by a period). Web. Date of access (day month year). If required, URL address in angle
brackets <http://address/filename>.
Examples with and without URL:
Mintz, S. “Native America on the Eve of Contact.” Digital History. College of Education University of Houston, Nov. 2006.
Web. 16 Nov. 2006. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=661>.
“Bermuda.” CIA World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. Web. 17 Dec. 2006.
<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html>.
“Pittsburgh, PA.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 15 May 2009. Web.15 May 2009.
19. E-mail Message
Sender’s name. “Title of message from subject line.” Message to ________. Date sent. E-mail.
Despines, J. “Schedule change for library.” Message to Ms. Tungate. 30 May 2009. E-mail.
20. On-line Image, Sound, Video Clip, or Digital File (pdf, image, map, video, sound file, mp3, etc.)
Author/Creator (if known). “Title or description item.” File type (pdf, image, map, video, sound file, mp3, etc.). Title of
overall site. Publisher or sponsor of site; if not available, use n.p. (followed by comma), Date of publication
(day month year)--if no date, use n.d. Web. Date of access. If required, URL address in angle brackets followed
by period---shorten long URLs to the .com, .edu, .org, etc. <http://address/filename>.
Kelly, Charles. “Martin Luther King, Jr.” Online Image. AP Images. Associated Press, 3 Apr. 1968. Web. 13 Sept. 2013.
<http://classic.apimages.com>.
Month Abbreviations: Except for May, June and July, use these abbreviations:
Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.
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