General Information

The Depression News – the 1930s

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus

/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html 

America’s Story – Depression and WWII

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii

American Memory Project – Great Depression Photographs

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

President Hoover and the Great Depression

http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery06/gallery06.html

We made do – Recalling the Great Depression

http://www.mcsc.k12.in.us/mhs/social/madedo/

The New Deal and Its Programs

New Deal Network – Educational Guide to the Great Depression

http://newdeal.feri.org/

By the people, for the people – Posters from the WPA

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

Stock Market Crash

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 – An Essay

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch9_p8.htm

Modern World History – The Stock Market Crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/crash/crashfla.htm

Hobos

Riding the Rails – Teen Hobos of the Great Depression

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/

Dust Bowl

Surviving the Dust Bowl

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/

Weedpatch Camp – Dust Bowl Era

http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/

Culture (Fashion, Music, Radio, Movies, & Comics)

American Cultural History – 1930 – 1939

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade30.html

America’s Jazz Heritage

http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/

History of Early Radio 1931-1945

http://www.old-time.com/halper/index.html

Wisconsin Public Radio – Old Time Radio Site

http://www.wpr.org/OTR/

(click on the schedules link to see a list of show airing dates and times)

The Greatest Films

http://www.filmsite.org/

(click on the link to “Film History by Decade”)

Chronological History of Comic Art in America 1914-1933

http://www.comic-art.com/history/chronol2.htm

Chronological History of Comic Art in America 1934-1952

http://www.comic-art.com/history/chronol3.htm

20^th Century Fashion History – 1930s

http://www.costumegallery.com/1930.htm

Clothing from the 1930s

http://www.costumes.org/pages/1930links.htm