culturalartifacts

Definition: A cultural artifact is a man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. The artifact may change over time in what it represents, how it appears and how and why it is used as the culture changes over time. A cultural icon often represents or symbolizes what is going on in a society or culture. A cultural icon can be an object, event, or even a person.

Keywords: Try using similar or related words and phrases to find information on your topic. When looking for topics in our Online Book Catalog, you will find more results if you search by KEYWORD rather than subject. Here are some KEYWORDS to consider for this assignment:

Culture Popular Culture Social life and customs Fashion Decades Icon Symbol Artifact

For additional web sites, go to the library's online catalog and type in "internet sites about culture" and click "Title" then, "elec. access." Browse through the list of sites about culture linked to our catalog.

Electronic books are available on the library homepage. Access the Gale Virtual Reference Library here(See librarians for password). A variety of sources dealing with cultural icons and artifacts are accessible in electronic format. A great E-Book resource for this assignment is the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.

Go to the HFHS Library Homepage*. Here you will find a variety of subscription databases filled with information from published, reliable sources like reference books, magazines and journals, as well as newspapers. The following databases would work best for this assignment:

- Student Resource Center (Hint: Search by KEYWORD instead of subject. Also, once the results list appears, check the left-hand column for additional and more specific topics related to your search.)

Click here for links to several citation composers that will help you with your bibliography.

Reminder: To access our databases at home or at school, you will need to type in a password, username, login, etc. See the librarian for details.

*Visit us on the Web at www.hfhighschool.org. Scroll down the H-F Homepage and click on "Library Online Resources" on the lower right.

001.9 KRA Beyond Star Trek: physics from alien invasions to the end of time. Explores the connection between science and popular culture, discussing how the laws of physics relate to situations presented in films and television shows such as "Star Trek," and exploring topics such as alien visitation, interstellar travel, and ESP.

133.4 HAI The Dracula scrapbook: articles, essays, letters, newspaper cuttings, anecdotes, illustrations, photographs and memorabilia about the vampire legend.

301.2 WAR The immediate experience: movies, comics, theatre & other aspects of popular culture.

303.4 ILL I'll buy that!: 50 small wonders and big deals that revolutionized the lives of consumers : a 50-year retrospective.

303.4 MAR Follies and foibles: a view of 20th century fads. Discusses various American fads in chronological order.

305.4 HON Creating Rosie the Riveter: class, gender, and propaganda during World War II.

306 PAN Panati's parade of fads, follies, and manias : the origins of our most cherished obsessions. In depth study of one hundred years of American Popular culture: what it was, how it's changed, and what it has become.

306 SMI Poplorica: a popular history of the fads, mavericks, inventions, and lore that shaped modern America. Tells the stories behind twenty inventions and innovations that have had a major influence on how people work, live, play, and eat, including the introduction of TV dinners, air conditioning, black velvet paintings, and permanent-press clothing.

306.09 CUL The art of democracy: a concise history of popular culture in the United States.

306.09 ROC Rock & roll generation: teen life in the 50s. Examines various aspects of teen life in the 1950s, a decade characterized by the emergence of rock'n'roll, looking at the music and musicians, Elvis, movie idols, hot rods, fashion, and the youth market.

306.4 EAR One nation under a groove : Motown and American culture. Explores the influence Motown has had on the country in respect to music and racial relationships and identity, looking at the social climate of the 1950s and 1960s and the rise of youth culture that set the stage for Berry Gordy and his business.

332.7 SIM The credit card catastrophe: the 20th century phenomenon that changed the world. Examines the credit card industry from the viewpoint of one who was in on the beginnings of the Diner's Club, which started the plastic revolution, with case histories of people whose fortunes were lost or made using the cards.

391 BAK Fashions of a decade: the 1950s. A look at the most influential trends in twentieth-century fashion, covering the years between 1950 and 1959, with original paintings, photographs, and illustrations of record jackets, advertisements, and posters.

391 BAK Fashions of a decade. Chronicles clothing trends of the 1940s and the influence of World War II on styles of dress, availability of many fabrics, and the new ideas of "designers at war.".

391 CAR Fashions of a decade. A pictorial survey chronicling the international clothing fashions of the 1980s.

391 CLA Costume since 1945 : couture, street style, and anti-fashion. Captures in drawings and text the changes of mood and style in dress from 1945 to 1995.

391 CON Fashions of a decade. A pictorial survey chronicling the international fashions of the 1960's.

391 COS Fashions of a decade. Chronicles trends in 1930s styles such as lower hemlines and broader shoulders; the introduction of synthetic fabrics; and new views of fitness, health, and personal beauty.

391 FEL Fashions of a decade. Explores, through text and illustrations, how fashions and clothes reflect the social, political, and cultural climate of their time.

391 HER Fashions of a decade. A decade-by-decade look at the most influential trends in twentieth-century fashion, covering the years between 1920 and the 1990s, with original paintings, photographs, and illustrations of record jackets, advertisements, and posters.

391 HER Fashions of a decade. Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of the comfortable, high-living 1920s.

391 MCD McDowell's directory of twentieth century fashion. Contains an alphabetical directory of 350 major designers and a section on the fashion trends of this century.

391 MEL What we wore: an offbeat social history of women's clothing, 1950 to 1980.

391 PER From top hats to baseball caps, from bustles to blue jeans : why we dress the way we do. Discusses the types of clothing people have worn throughout history, why they dressed the way they did, and how clothing reflects and even influences history.

391.009 HOW In Vogue: sixty years of international celebrities and fashion from British Vogue.

500 GAR Fads and fallacies in the name of science. Examines the various fads, fallacies, strange cults, and curious panaceas which at one time or another have masqueraded as science.

629.222 SCH Mustang: power-packed pony. Describes the design and history of the popular Mustang car and its effects on popular culture.

700 LEW When Harlem was in vogue. A social history of the Harlem Renaissance following World War I, describing many African-American artists of the time.

700.1 PHI Beat culture and the New America, 1950-1965. Chronicles the history, development and major personalities involved in the Beat movement looking at their contributions to literature, poetry, music, film, and art.

700.89 CHA The Harlem Renaissance. Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading African-American community during the 1920s and 1930s.

725 MAR Ticket to paradise : American movie theaters and how we had fun. Photographs and text celebrate the glory days of the American movie theater from big cities to small towns.

741.5 HAR The art of the comic book: an aesthetic history. Traces the evolution of comic books from their beginnings in the 1930s through the mid-1990s, demonstrating how the words and pictures function together as a unique art form.

810.9 HIL Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance. Offers a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how it sparked a period of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming for many African-Americans.

810.9 WAT The birth of the beat generation : visionaries, rebels, and hipsters. Chronicles the lives of poets and novelists, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others drawing connections between their unique brand of literature.

909.82 HAR The sixties: an illustrated history in colour, 1960-70. Brief text and numerous illustrations survey the political, economic, social, and cultural events, trends, and leaders of the 1960s.

909.82 OXF The Oxford history of the twentieth century. Contains twenty-seven essays in which a variety of historians from throughout the world examine significant events and key themes of the twentieth century, and contemplate what the future might bring.

909.82 SHA 1910s. Explores the decade of the 1910s worldwide, a time of great upheaval, including the events surrounding World War I and the Russian Revolution.

909.82 SHA 1920s. Explores the decade of the 1920s worldwide, a time which included the formation of the League of Nations, Prohibition, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and the stock market crash.

917.392 NAS Whatever happened to blue suede shoes? A nostalgia quiz book of the fifties.

973.03 TUL The New York Public Library book of popular Americana. Alphabetical entries on American popular culture, from M&M's

973.9 DIG The proud decades: America in war and in peace, 1941-1960. Provides an overview of the forties and fifties in the United States and examines how America reacted to the unaccustomed role of world leadership.

973.9 HAN The 1920s. Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1920s, including prohibition, the higher standard of living, the Teapot Dome scandal, barnstorming, and flappers.

973.91 LIF Life: century of change: America in pictures, 1900-2000. A photographic exploration of the twentieth century, examining the themes of home, family, machines, entertainment, lifespan, cultures, shopping, sex, design, and celebrity.

973.917 HAR The forties and fifties: an illustrated history in colour, 1945-1959. Presents the major events of a period haracterized by fear of another world war, unprecedented high standards of living, and great scientific advances.

973.917 HEI Home front America: popular culture of the World War II era. Presents memorabilia from those left behind during World War II discussing home front activities like the U.S.O. dances, victory gardens, and war bond rallies.

973.92 GOL Waking from the dream: America in the sixties. Examines the dreams present in the sixties and how they succeeded and failed, with a look at the decades values, ideals, and culture.

973.92 HAL The fifties. Social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 1950s in the United States.

973.922 ARC The incredible sixties: the stormy years that changed America. A comprehensive look at the 1960s, which had the Vietnam War, a sexual revolution, a feminist revolution, the Kennedy era, scientific advancements, exploding ghettos, freedom riders, and other important changes in music, art, literature, science, politics, and civil rights.

973.922 WAY The Way we were: 1963, the year Kennedy was shot. 420 photographs with accompanying text recapture the fads, fashions, foods, and people of America in 1963.

973.924 KNO Very seventies: a cultural history of the 1970s, from the pages of Crawdaddy.

R 306.0973 PEN Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms : pop culture of 20th-century America. This book recounts the enduring products, innovative trends, and fun fads of the years of the 1900s and 1910s.

R 700 BRO Timelines of the arts and literature. A chronological presentation of the cultural aspects of human history, from the earliest recorded creations to the present.

R 809.3 ENC The encyclopedia of fantasy. Contains over 4,000 entries that provide information about various aspects of fantasy in literature, films, television, opera, art, and comics, ranging primarily from the decades preceding the start of the nineteenth century through 1995.

R 909.82 BRO Timelines of the 20th century: a chronology of 7,500 key events, discoveries, and people that shaped our century. Year-to-year chronology of the 20th century, from 1900 through 1994, looking at the key people and events in the four general areas of politics and war; science, technology, and medicine; arts and literature; and social, economic, and everyday life.

R 909.82 OUR Our times: the illustrated history of the 20th century. An illustrated chronicle of the twentieth-century, offering an overivew of each decade; presenting a year-by-year account of happenings and people in sports, science, society, the arts, industry, and other areas; and featuring an essay that characterizes each decade as well as the top story for every year.

R 909.82 PAR Day by day: the sixties. A daily chronology of world events covering the decade of the sixties in a two volume set.

R 973 DIC American culture after World War II. A dictionary of people, places, terms, and art forms associated with creative expression in the humanities and representative of American culture in the latter half of the 20th century.

R 973.9 GOR The Columbia chronicles of American life, 1910-1992. Text and photographs provide a panorama of American life from 1910 to 1992.

R 973.9 LIF Life sixty years: a 60th anniversary celebration, 1936-1996. Reviews the top stories and photographs from sixty years of "Life" magazine, from 1936 through 1996, grouped by subject including the White House, Hollywood, fashion, disaster, protest, and other topics.

R 973.91 GOR American chronicle: year by year through the twentieth century. Highlights all of the major events that have taken place in America in the twentieth century, profiling developments in art, literature, politics, fashion, entertainment, sports, and technology.

R 973.91 USC The 1910s. Describes aspects of the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States between 1910 and 1919 including the Progressive Movement, World War I, and silent films.

R 973.91 WOO The 1900s. Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century, including daily life, labor relations, the conservation movement, and transportation.

R 973.92 AME American decades. An exploration of American life from 1950 through 1959, looking at key people, events, and topics in the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion, government and politics, law, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, science and technology, and sports.