Thanks to everyone for the sites they shared. There is no lack a great
sites on this topic:
AMERICAN MEMORY COLLECTION
America From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the
FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Access to over 160,000 photographs from the time period.
Voices From the Dustbowl
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Migrant workers.
Library of Congress Learning Page: The Great Depression
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html
Going Back to Iowa: Introduction to Grant Woods
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/wood/intro.html
Information on Grant Woods, an important artist of the 1930s.
Learning Adventures in Citizenship, 1931-1940
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode6/e6_mm.html
Focuses on life in NY City during the Great Depression.
New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/
Links to documents, photos, literature and art from the 1930s.
1930-1939 Decade of the 20th Century
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decs3.html
Lots of links to all aspects of American life in the 1930s.
The American Experience
Surviving the Dustbowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/
Riding the Rails http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails
Information on daily life during the Depression, including oral histories.
America's Great Depression
http://www.amatecon.com/greatdepression.html
Explore the causes of the depression.
I Remember...
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/techstuf/depressn/teacup.html
Reminiscences of the Great Depression.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook41.html
Learn how World War I, Europe, and the US influenced the cause of the
Depression.
Kingwood College Library American Cultural History 1930 - 1939
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html
Information and links on the decade.
SnapShots - America in the 1930s History through the eyes of those who
lived it. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief.htm
Move your cursor over the snapshot to find information bout people in the
photo.
WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1930-1940 This is an outline of links to America in
the 1930s. http://www.ku.edu/history/VL/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html
Browse the outline and see if your topic appears. The Dust Bowl,
Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, Amelia Earhart, Little Orphan Annie, and much,
much more (University of Kansas site).
A front page document of the first agreement between the United Farm
Workers and a fruit grower company
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/UFW/digiorgio/startdg.html
Farm Labor Movement information
http://www.manasreprints.com/samples/I-19.PDF
An article written in 1948 describes the "labor" situation of various
groups that helped develop the California fruit market into the economic
powerhouse it is today! This is a MUST READ.
Great Depression Recipes
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1918/ca.html?
See what people cooked and ate during tough economic times.
Legacy of the Dust Bowl
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/nov03/cyber1103.shtml
Describes links to sites about the Dpression. URLs at the end of the
article.
Tracks: Impressions of America
http://www.ecb.org/tracks/mod11.htm
Scroll down the page to find links to American life during the Great
Depression.
The Great Depression http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/depr.html
Huge list of links that is broken into areas of interest during the Great
Depression and includes music, people, events and historical aspects.
This site is from Mr. Horwitz' US History Class at Roosevelt High School,
Fresno, CA.
Great Depression Links
http://home.earthlink.net/~dboals1/a-part1a.html#DEPRESSION
http://www.thinkbright.wned.org
Use the "search" feature/Great Depression/select grade level.
Dustbowl links
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/dustbowl.htm
A long list. Scroll through it all.
GOOGLE DIRECTORY: The Great Depression
http://directory.google.com/Top/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Social_Studies/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Great_Depression/?il=1
Links to useful sites on the topic.
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