GREAT DEPRESSION: USEFUL LINKS
GREAT DEPRESSION: A series of links on U.S. History from Jerrie S. Cheek of the Educational Technology Center at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
GREAT
DEPRESSION: A portal organized by Mr. Horwitz, a teacher at Roosevelt High School
in Fresno, California.
AMERICA
FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION TO WORLD WAR II -- PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FSA-0WI,
1935-1945: A massive
collection of more than 160,000 images taken by Farm Security Administration
and Office of War Information photographers and assembled by the American
Memory Project.
: American audio samples, photos and diaries from the 1930s.
HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY AND MUSEUM -- THE GREAT DEPRESSION:
A sub-section of a small on-line exhibit from the Presidential repository.
HISTORY OF HOBOES: A
July 6, 1999 audio feature from "Talk of the Nation."
: A New York Times On The Web feature that includes contemporary news
articles from October 1929.
: Background information about the American Depression from literature
professor Cary Nelson.
1930S --
THE GREAT DEPRESSION:
Primary sources from American history including audio clips, images, letters
and diaries.
RIDING
THE RAILS: The
companion web-site to the PBS American Experience documentary recounting the
experiences of 1930s-era hoboes.
SPARKNOTES -- THE GREAT DEPRESSION:
A detailed overview that focuses upon the United States.
SURVIVING THE DUST BOWL:
The companion web-site to the PBS American Experience documentary recounting
the impact of the drought that devastated the Mid-West during the 1930s.
WALKER EVANS REVOLUTIONIZES DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY:
An introduction to the American Depression-era photographer.
WE MADE DO --
RECALLING THE GREAT DEPRESSION:
An oral history project from students at Mooresville High School in Indiana.
WIKIPEDIA -- GREAT DEPRESSION: An introduction from the on-line encyclopedia.
WIKIPEDIA -- GREAT DEPRESSION IN CANADA: A brief description of the impact of the Depression upon Canada.
WIKIPEDIA -- GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: A brief description of the impact of the Depression upon Britain.