The Great Depression Web Quest
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Databases

Facts on File: History Database Center


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Student Resource Center
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Print Resources at
MHS
Library Media Center

Non-Fiction
Use the
MHS Online Catalog OLC

Web Links

General Sites
About.com: Photographs of the Great Depression: Here are great photographs for each of the areas you are researching: farmers, migrants, climate and living.

America in the 1930s

Wessel's Living History Farm

Kingwood College Library
American Cultural History
1930 - 1939

Picturing the Century
One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

National Archive
A New Deal for the Arts

Voices from the Thirties
Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project

The Great Depression: Interviews

Farming
Farming in the 1930s

We Have Fed You All For a Thousand Years: Farm workers

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Tennessee Valley Authority

New Deal Remedies

Climate
The Great Depression and World War II: 1929-1945
The Dust Bowl

The Drought

Timeline of the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl

An Eyewitness Account

Drought in the Dust Bowl Years

Rural LIfe
The Great Depression and Rural Life in Rockne, Texas

1930s Farm Life

Having Fun During the Depression

"I Remember . . ." - Reminiscences of the Great Depression

Growing Up on a Farm During the Great Depression

Urban LIfe
Big Apple History
Breadlines, Hoovervilles, Predjudice in Playgrounds, Ghettoization, Riot and Aftermath

Migration
The Migrant Experience

Riding the Rails: Teenagers in the Great Depression

Mass Exodus from the Plains

Economics
PBS: The American Experience: The Crash of 1929

PBS: Freedom: A History of Us: Crash

PBS: Freedom: A History of Us: A New Deal

Politics
Teaching With Documents:
FDR's Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House: Franklin D. Roosevelt

American President.org
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Global Background
PBS: Freedom: A History of Us: Twentieth Century Monsters

Modern American Poetry: About the Great Depression

World Events 1930s


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