HIT-> Decades: Resources

["Gail M. Szeliga" <ny000999@MAIL.NYSER.NET>]

Thank you to all who responded, your suggestions were very useful.

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Dear Gail,
        As a history teacher I would certainly include the two following
sources: American Chronicles and @0th Century Chronicles. I won't teach
my class without them.
                        Sophia Smith
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Gail--
Here are a few additional suggestions for "decades" resources.  If you have
time, I would love to see your entire list of responses.  This is an area
many of us support, I am sure.

_Twentieth Century_    Macmillan.  6 volume set
_Twenties, Thirties, etc. _ series from Macdonald, used to be sold by Silver
Burdett.  OP?
_1920s, 1930s, etc. Timelines_ Crestwood House.  Low reading level, but
useful.
_Pircure History of the 20th Century" series.  Franklin Watts.
_Album of the 50s, 60s, 70s--.  Franklin Watts

Great single title which traces pop culture by decade:

_Panati's Parade of Fads, Foibles and Manias._ Charles Panati.  Harper,
$13.00 (Paper)

Hope this helps.  It seems that many of the best things are out-of-print like
_This Fabulous Century_.  There must be a demand--it's frustrating!

Mary Jo Langhorne         City High School     Iowa City, IA
MJL1508@aol.com
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Subject:      Re: The "Decades"

Two of my favorite U.S. history sources covering the 1920's and 1930's are
Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday" and "Since Yesterday".  Wonderful
books, fascinating and reasonably easy to read.  My student's use them a lot.
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        Jane Carver                     jcarver@a1.mec.mass.edu
        The Rivers School               Weston, MA 02193-
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

I don't know if this will be helpful, but if you are interested
in adding a source from which students/teachers can add
visuals, you might try locating the "Video Encyclopedia of the
20th Century" somewhere in your area.  This has video clips
from the beginning of the century up until late 80's, I
believe.  It is a very expensive item, and is most likely to be
held by a college or university and shared by the surrounding
institutions.  In our area, Longwood College in Farmville, Va.,
has one for sure, but I don't know of any others.  The
encyclopedia is actually a set of videodiscs with an index, and
those needing to use clips from it find the segment numbers in
the index and can have these transferred to videotape which
they then use in preparing their presentations.  It worked for
a project done by eighth grade honors American history students
at a high school out near Longwood where I was
working a few years ago.  This may be no help to your needs at
all, but then again it may be something for you to look out
for...

Shelia Demetriadis
Mosby Middle School
Richmond, Va.
sdemei@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

Dear Gail,
We have some of the Facts on File series, Day by Day, the fifties, etc.
and find them useful.

Lois Roberts, BOD, Oakland, CA  lrobert@eis.calstate.edu
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

Add "American Decades  1960-1969 etc. From Gale.  There are six volumes
(some not yet published) I think.  They each cover a different decade.
hope this helps

Charles Phillips
Library Media Specialist  - Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maryland
Media Library Science Instructor - Western Maryland College
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Subject: decades

My students enjoy using the Day By Day series published by Facts on File
I have the following: The forties, the fifties, the sixties, and the
seventies.  The last set I purchased was thes seventies, I think it
was about $150 for the two volume set, other decades are one or two volumes.
Good Luck!

Elma Olalde
Library Media Specialist
St.John's Jesuit High School
Toledo,OHio
Internet:Scimatec84@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

Timetables of History (Macmillan, I think--I'm at home)
is a great reference book.  Is divided into columns and tells what is
going on in art, literture, politics, etc. during the given year.  We
couldn't be without it!

Pat
Patricia Hooker, Media Specialist    Mt. Hebron High School
9440 Route 99 Ellicott City, MD 21042  410-313-2880
FAX 410-313-2889       Internet: phooker@umd5.umd.edu
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

Include Facts on File Time Line and a book called Timeline of History. I'm
at home and don't have the publisher of the last. Our freshmen do a
similar project & use Readers Guide for 60-90s with microfiche or bound
magazines.  There is also a series of books called History of Costume (
for men, women, children) It's really not a series. I ordered them from
Marshall Cavendish I think.  There are a number of books titled "The
Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties". Each is a separate book. The
Seventies is in two volumes.  Again I don't know the publisher (maybe
Macmillan or Gale?) Sorry to be so vague.  Sandy
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Subject: Re: The "Decades"

        Hi,  Reference your question regarding the decades,
        I know I have seem some (non reference) books which
        deal with individual decades and one of our favorites
        is "The Sixties" but the details are not at hand, so
        I will check when I get back to school.  Are you covering
        only from the 1870's (doesn't that decade series begin
        about there?) or are you going all of the way back?

        We have our students do an "Imagine You Were There"
        paper and they are allowed to go back to the revolutionary
        period.  We introduce many other books at that time
        which include such things as the Atlas of American History,
        so that they know where they were going if they were
        pioneers, pony express riders, on the Trail of Tears,
        fighting a battle in the Civil War, etc.

        Another wonderful source you may not have mentioned is
         Great Events in History : American ( from
        Salem/ Magill).  We have their Great Lives series as well.

        Chronologies are also helpful.  Just this month I saw an
        article in (as I recall) SLJ, in which an article called
        Time Travel described a similar paper --- with a bibliography
         appended.  If you can't find it, send your fax # and I
        will zap the bib to you.

        Isn't there a series about the decades of immigration?  I
        have it, I know but can't recall the title, just see
        it on the shelf.  Maybe you listed it -- I can't see your list
        at the moment.  If not, please reply and I will get the
        order info for you on these and any others I may have mentioned.

Marianne in Kentucky   <haase@hcca.oecn.ohio.gov>