The Great Depression:
Web-based Sources on the Great Depression:
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940.
American Studies at the University of Virginia. The 1930’s in Print. [Books, comics, advertising, news and documentaries.]
CUNY. Songs of the Great Depression. [Lyrics to three popular songs.]
Don Adams and students. We Made Do – Recalling the Great Depression. [A 6th Grade Oral History project. 7 Oral History Interviews transcribed here.]
Anne Pillow and Sheila Oliver. Hard Times: Coping with Life During the Great Depression 1929-1941. [Five interviews collected and transcribed by students of Broome High School, Spartansburg, SC in 2001. See also the page called “Entertainment in the Depression.”]
Michigan Historical Center. I Remember…. [4 Reminiscences]
New Deal Network. “Tennessee Valley Authority” in Tennessee: A Guide to the State, compiled and written by the Federal Writers’ Project.
New Deal Network. Archives in the Attic. [5 contributions]
New Deal Network. Letters from the Field. [Letters from Lorena Hickok to Harry Hopkins and Mrs. Roosevelt from the Tennessee Valley]
New Deal Network. New Deal Document Library. [Documents begin in 1928 but this collection is rich with a variety of sources after 1932. Documents include personal letters, articles, speeches, announcements, songs, wage tables, press conferences, etc.]
New Deal Network. Scene Fifteen. [Economic situation and TVA as depicted in 1937 play by the Federal Theatre Project]
New Deal Network. The Magpie Sings the Great Depression: Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School’s Literary Magazine, 1929-1942.
PBS. Tales from the Rails.
PBS. Striking a Chord: Railroads and their Musical Heritage
PBS. Added Obstacles. [For African America hobos, life on the road was especially difficult].
PBS. Surviving the Dust Bowl: An Eyewitness Account. [A Kansas wheat farmer's account of how he survived the Dust Bowl]
PBS. New Deal Remedies. [The government responds to the plight of Dust Bowl farmers]
PBS. Surviving the Dust Bowl: People and Events.
Stanley K. Schultz, [University of Wisconsin] American History 102: Civil War to the Present. Lecture 18: The Great Depression. Lecture 19: The New Deal. Lecture 20: [The Second New Deal].
The Great Depression. [The Web page as ‘tape recorder’ and archive. Notes by cyber visitors.]
About.com. 20th Century History: Photographs of the Great Depression.
American Studies at the University of Virginia. America in the 1930’s: Newsreels.
American Studies at the University of Virginia. America in the 1930’s: Films.
American Studies at the University of Virginia. The 1930’s on Display. [Design, architecture, art, exhibitions, etc.]
Archival Resources on the Great Depression at the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives
Dust Storms and their Damage. [Photos of]
Jason Moss, Jera Houghtaling, and Jessica Osbaldeston. The Great Depression in Arkansas: A photographic collection.
Library of Congress. America from the Great Depression to World War II. Photographs form the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
Library of Congress. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
Library of Congress. William P. Gottlieb. Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz.
Library of Congress. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
Modern American Poetry. A Photo Essay on the Great Depression.
National Archives and Records Administration. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Photos of … The Great Depression, 1929-1931.
New Deal Network. A New Deal for Carbon Hill, Alabama: A Photographic Document by William C. Pryor.
New Deal Network. Photo Library.
[Ken Burns. Jazz.] The Great Depression: History in the key of jazz.
American Studies at the University of Virginia. On the Air. [the audio landscape of the 1930s]
Dismuke’s Electrically Recorded 1920’s & 1930’s Phonograph Records.
Library of Congress. ‘Now What a Time’: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943.
Library of Congress. California Gold. Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.
Library of Congress. Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande.
Library of Congress. Southern Music. The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.
Library of Congress. Voices from the Dust Bowl.
Major Collections
American Studies at the University of Virginia. America in the 1930s.
National Archives and Records Administration. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
New Deal Network. The New Deal Network
Earlier Webquests
[Sullivan Middle School. Illinois.]. The Great Depression. [Note: None of the Links to Resources work. Zjd 7/12/04]
Ann Elmborg. The Great Depression: “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?”
Denise Brinker and Atlanta Visker. WebQuest: The Great Depression. [Note: “Last updated July 4, 1997.” None of the Links to Resources work. Zjd 7/12/04]
Lisa Heres. The Great Depression Museum. [Excellent]
Web pages on the Great Depression:
[M. Tungsten]. African-Americans during The Great Depression
American Studies at the University of Virginia. 1930s Timeline. [Politics & society, Science & Technology, Arts & Culture, World Events]
Brian R. Train. The Bonus Army of 1932. [History 151 at Univ. of Massachusetts]
Digital History. Guided Readings: the 1930s. [This is a valuable index to 25 pertinent topics.]
Michigan Historical Museum. The Depression News.
Museum of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Roosevelt’s Tree Army: A Brief History of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
National Archives and Records Administration. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. The Great Depression.
New Deal Network. TVA: Electricity for All. [Index to 17 important web pages covering topics under “The origins of TVA”, “Electricity for all”, “The People of Norris Basin”, and “Changing the Land” (about dams built by the TVA)]
Paul Sann. The Lawless Decade: The Crash.
Paul Sann. The Lawless Decade: The Morning After. [After the Crash]
Social Security Online. The History of Social Security.
Steve Kangas. The Great depression: Its Causes and Cure.
Steve Kangas. Timelines of the Great Depression.
The Great Depression Remembrances.
New Deal Network. The Origins of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Tricia Rezba and Helen Warke, The Great Depression: A Decade of Hardship. [Some information and many photos from the museum at Southern Illinois University. Also includes a transcript of several interviews conducted by Bourbonnais, Illinois students, usually with grandparents or other family members.]
University of South Dakota. The Dust Bowl.
Wessels Living History Farm [York, Nebraska]. Farming in the 1930’s. [Twenty-five or more excellent web pages from the perspective of a Nebraska farmer.]