OF MICE AND MEN
The title comes from a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 96)
"The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft agley [often go wrong]
And leave us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy"
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American Culture in the 1930's
American Cultural History – 1930-1939
The Author
John Steinbeck: The California Novels - Character lists, plot summaries, maps and other supplementary material for Steinbeck's California novels.
John Steinbeck and Context for Of Mice and Men
Montery County Historical Society (places in Steinbeck's Novels)
The Book
Of Mice and Men: The Student Survival Guide
Of Mice and Men: Back in Time - A WebQuest for 10th Grade English
Information Resources for Of Mice and Men - Topics include Steinbeck's life and travels, retardation and disabilities, the Great Depression, migrant workers, the dust bowl, and much more.
Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia
The Great Depression
Wikopedia Encyclopedia: The Great Depression
The Depression News: The 1930's
Then and Now: Prices - Compare Prices During the Great Depression to Prices Today
The 1930's Great Depression Gallery - from The Michigan Historical Museum
The New Deal Photo Gallery - Over 5000 Great Depression era images from the National Archives, the FDR Library and many other sources
Photographs of The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl – Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Living History: Interviews with those who lived through The Dust Bowl
The 1930's Dust Bowl - Excerpts from "The Dust Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression" by Paul Bonnifield.
Visions In the Dust: A Child's perspective of the Dust Bowl - by Jan King and Rena Nisbet. From the American Memory Collection.
Librarian's Index to the Internet - A hotlist of links to resources on the dust bowl of the 1930s.
Dust Bowl Photo Sites:
Horatio Alger / The American Dream
The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – American writer and historian.
Horatio Alger, Jr. Wikipedia Article
Horatio Alger: the Moral of the Story
Literary Encyclopedia: Horatio Alger
Euthanasia