The Great Depression
THE TURBULENT THIRTIES AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
GENERAL SITES
NEW DEAL TIMELINE: 1933 and 1934
TIMELINE: America's Great Depression
SnapShots - America in the 1930s
Timeline of the Great Depression
INTERACTIVE DIAGRAM: Causes of the Wall Street Crash
Definitions of key terms relating to the Great Depression
New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Adm
Twenties, Depression & New Deal
About the USA - U.S. History > The Great Depression and the New Deal
The United States, Depression, and Neutrality
Great Depression and New Deal History Forum
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Introduction: The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Coping with the Great Depression
Americans React to the Great Depression
The Crash and the Great Depression
Hoovervilles During the Great Depression
Race During the Great Depression
1930s Great Depression Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
We Made Do - Recalling The Great Depression
Prices for various items during the Great Depression
Then and Now: Prices, 1930s Great Depression Gallery
Riding the Rails--Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
The American Experience | Riding the Rails
The Great Depression and The New Deal
Philosophies of President Hoover and President Roosevelt
Sliding into the Great Depression
America's Great Depression - Links
Building America: FDR's New Deal
Hoover Presidential Museum: The Great Depression
Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Great Depression History Resources
APUSH Web Links-Depression & The New Deal
Portrait of America: Survey Graphic in the Thirties
Index of resources on the 1930s in America
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
PRIMARY SOURCES: WPA Life Histories--Home Page
PRIMARY SOURCES: Been Here So Long - WPA American Slave Narratives
PRIMARY SOURCES: WPA Life Histories from Texas
PRIMARY SOURCES: Great Depression Oral Histories
Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic
NEW DEAL DOCUMENT LIBRARY: Author Index - Chronological Index - Publisher/Collection Index - Subject Index
NARA 1930 Census Microfilm Locator - Welcome Page
Oh Yeah?: Herbert Hoover Predicts Prosperity
“The Gigantic Forces of Depression Are Today in Retreat”: Hoover Insists
PRIMARY SOURCE: Letter to President Roosevelt
Document Library: Fireside Chats
The Social Implications of the Roosevelt Administration, by H. Ickes
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum: Photos of Great Depression & New
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
FDR Cartoon Collection Database
Archival Resources on the Great Depression
The Magpie Sings the Great Depression - Student Voices from the 1930s
“I’m Going to Fight Like Hell:” Anna Taffler and the Unemployed Councils of the 1930s
“Sir I Will Thank You with All My Heart”: Seven Letters from the Great Migration
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project
U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color
FSA-OWI: About the Collection -- Written Records
FSA-OWI: Selected Bibliography and Related Web Sites
Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
NARA | Research Room | Guide to Records of the Children's Bureau
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
(It wasn't just the 1929 Market Crash!)
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929 - Introduction
1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash
The Stock-Market Crash as a Hallmark of the Period
Looking Beyond Traditional Interpretations
The Great Depression - More Great Depression
Causes and Effects of the "Great Depression"
The Roots of the Great Depression
America's Great Depression - Causes and Cures
AGRICULTURE & THE DUST BOWL
AGRICULTURE - TENANCY - SHARECROPPING
IMAGES: Farming the Land - 1880-1920
FDR Cartoon Dabatabase: The Farms Issue
New Deal Network Photo Gallery-Farm-to-Market Roads
Thumbs, FSA Labor maps, USDA History Collection
Boll weevil illustration, USDA History Collection
Agricultural Changes in the 1920s
Agriculture During the Great Depression
Cotton and Petroleum Crises of 1931 in Texas
NEW MEANS TO RESCUE AGRICULTURE, 3/16/33
FDR: "America's Economic Problem Number 1" - A response to FDR's speech by Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator
FDR's Address on the Agricultural Adjustment Act, May 14, 1935
Chronology of the Farm Security Administration
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
The Farm Security Administration - Info and images of the FSA photography division can be found below in the section on Great Depression photography.
Comments on the Farm Security Administration
US Code : Title 7 - Agriculture
Farmers and the Administration
Mapping Jobs for Texas Migrants
Major Problems in the Rehabilitation of the South
Migratory Farm Labor in the United States
But migrant families do not gather...
The New Deal for Share-Croppers
Salvation for the Tenant Farmer
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
“Almost Broken Spirits”: Farmers in the New South
"WE DOIN' ALRIGHT:" THE SOUTH IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Levi Jordan Plantation Home Page
Sharecropping and Tenancy at the Levi Jordan Plantation
Why did the tenants leave the Jordan plantation?
“Like a Thick Wall”: Blocking Farm Auctions in Iowa
Dissatisfied With the Lives They Live: Farm Women Describe Their Work in
Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee
“Efficient Farms Need Not Pay Starvation Wages”: The Fair Labor Standard
The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike of 1939
Thumbnails, Extension Service Report, USDA History Collection
Homecoming - Chronicle of African-American Farming and Land Loss
Black Cotton Farmers and the AAA
Will the New Deal Be A Square Deal For the Negro?
What Hope For The Rural Negro?
"The New Negro" Immigration and Migration
From the Ground Up - Resettlement Administration
THE WAY THINGS WERE: A Photographic Essay on Rural Texans and Their Buildings, 1850-1940
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration
PICTURING TEXAS: FSA-OWI Photographers in the Lone Star State, 1935-1943
PBS ONLINE: DEATH OF THE DREAM
The South: Where is it? What is it? - Index of Graphs
THE DUST BOWL
TIMELINE: Surviving the Dust Bowl
PRIMARY SOURCES: Voices from the Dust Bowl Home Page - mirror site
The American Experience | Surviving the Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
Lost and Found Sound: Voices from the Dustbowl
The Dirty Thirties - Suite101.com
1933: "Black Blizzard" Blankets Country
1934: Storms Rage in "Dust Bowl"
PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
THE ART OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Bound for Glory: America in Color - FSA/OWI 1939-43 in Color
New Frontiers in American Documentary Film
Photographing People of the Depression
Photography As A Research Method
Photography as Factor in Social Development
Out of One, Many: Regionalism in FSA Photography
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - American Scenes from the FSA
Chronology of the Farm Security Administration
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
The Farm Security Administration
FSA/OWI B&W Photographs - Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page
MASTERS of PHOTOGRAPHY - FSA Background information
Out of One, Many: Regionalism in FSA Photography
Photographing the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression - Margaret Bourke-White Gallery
The Photographers: Roy Stryker
Walker Evans (1903–1975) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Documentary Eye: Walker Evans
Evans' Images for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
Agee and Evans' Great Experiement
The History Place - Dorothea Lange Photos
Dorothea Lange, Collections -- Oakland Museum of California
A Picture of Humanity - Migrant Mother - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration
One-Pager: Analysis of Dorothea Lange's Photographs (Education at the Getty)
Dorothea Lange Curriculum (Education at the Getty)
Russell Lee's Photographs of Wheat Harvesting
Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration
Other Photographers of the FSA
FDR Cartoon Dabatabase: The Farms Issue
New Deal Network Photo Gallery-Farm-to-Market Roads
Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935-1943
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum: Photos of Great Depression & New Deal
New Deal Network Photo Gallery
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
America's Great Depression - Photos
Image Gallery, USDA History Collection
USDA Special Collections Site Map
Thumbs, FSA Labor maps, USDA History Collection
Propaganda & Dreams, Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by the FSA/OWI
VARIOUS TOPICS AND LINKS RELATING TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Hoover on the Bonus Army, The Bonus Army of 1932, FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Bonus March - The Bonus Army
Keynesian economics - Boom and Depression
INTERACTIVE DIAGRAM: Opposition to the New Deal
Puerto Rican Needleworkers during the New Deal, Introduction
The Real Estate Industry Lobby and Public Housing in the 1930s
The Bum as Con Artist: An Undercover Account of the Great Depression
Lending a Hand: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s
The Vagrant in Fiction: Emblematic American?
Always Lend a Helping Hand: Sevier Country, Utah, Remembers the Great Depression
“We Have Got a Good Friend in John Collier”: A Taos Pueblo Tries to Sell the Indian New Deal
Working Her Fingers to the Bone: Agnes Nestor’s Story
RURAL TEXAS WOMEN AT WORK, 1930-1960
Interview Excerpts: Making Do: Women and Work
The "Forgotten Women" of the Great Depression
Digital History - Children and the Great Depression
Toward A Better Living For Rural Texas Blacks, 1930-1960
The Great Depression in Arkansas
The Survey and the Progressive Ethos
Survey Graphic and the Depression: Efficiency and Expertise
CULTURAL OBJECTS: THE SOUTH IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
North By South/Great Migrations Page
AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 30s
American Cultural History - 1930-1939
SnapShots - America in the 1930s
Events, Trends, and People of the 1930s
More on America in the 1930s
Despair and Fantasy - Women's Fashions of the 1930s
Art and Entertainment During the 1930s
Martha Graham and Modern American Dance
Styling and design of American automobiles throughout the 1930s.
Woody Guthrie and the American Spirit
Woody Guthrie: This Man is Your Myth: This Man is My Myth
This Land is Your Land: Rural Music & the Depression
Hep, Hot, & Headbanging: The Retro Rebirth of Swing
Jazz: Marking Time in American Culture
Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's
It's the Booze Talkin': Prohibition and the Gangster Film - Crime Pays: The Hollywood Gangster from 1930-1938
Birth of the Screwball Comedy - Screwball Comedy
Capra, Smith, and Doe - Frank Capra and the American Ideals - Frank Capra & The American myth
Charlie Chaplin in the Machine Age
The Marx Brothers and Identity Construction
The Savage Genius: Louis Armstrong's Film Roles in the Depression
Moderntimes; Classic Film Pages
Hollywood's Depression Age - Hollywood's Conservative Age - Hollywood's Golden Age - More info available on my Motion Pictures, Movies, Film page.
The Student Movement of the Thirties
BABE RUTH: CONSTRUCTING A LEGEND
From Skyscrapers to Skulls: Georgia O'Keeffe Creates the "Native" American
Ideological Conflicts in Absalom, Absalom! and Gone With the Wind home page
Urban and Urbane: The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s
Cultural Objects VI: Saturday Evening Post Cover Art
1930s: Cartoons - IDENTITY CRISIS: The Many Faces of the Man of Steel - George Herrmiman's Krazy Kat
Art for Trade's Sake: The Fusion of Commerce and Culture, 1927-1934
A Gullible Nation? War of the Worlds Revisited
Amos 'n' Andy in Black and White
The Visitor in Your Living Room: Radio Advertising in the 1930s
Old Time Radio - Radio Days: A Soundbite History
The Cavalcade Moves Forward: Examining the Myth and Reality of Hero Worship in American Radio
The rise of bakelite and other plastics in the US during the 1930s
The Rise of the Bakelite and Catalin Radio in the US during the 1930s
The World of Gertrude Stein - biography of an early twentieth century author
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
VARIOUS 1930s TOPICS
Margie's 1930's and 1940's Web Links
NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939-1940
The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
Touring the 1930s American Roadscape
NARA 1930 Census Microfilm Locator - Welcome Page
Father Charles E. Coughlin & Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long, Huey "Kingfish" Long & "Share the Wealth", HUEY LONG: Sharing Our Wealth, Excerpts From Huey Long's "Second Autobiography", HueyLong, “He’s a Demagogue,That’s What He Is”: Hodding Carter on Huey Long, & The Assassination Of Senator Huey Long
Lindbergh kidnapping: The Lindbergh Case - The Trial of the Century & The Lindbergh Kidnapping
The Great Zeppelins, TheZeppelin Library, & Airships:The Zeppelin website,
Hindenburg Zeppelin, "Radio Days - Hindenburg", Old Radio Programs - Historical Speeches - The Hindenberg Airship Disaster, The Hindenburg Disaster
“Pachucos in the Making”: Roots of the Zoot
American Experience | Zoot Suit Riots
John Herbert Dillinger, American Experience | Public Enemy #1, & John Dillinger
LESTERM. GILLIS, aka: "Baby Face" Nelson & Baby Face Nelson
Bonnie and Clyde - For more, check out the section on the 20th Century on my Texas History webpage.
THE KANSAS CITY MASSACRE & Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas City Massacre
Organized Crime In America of the Thirties: Best Cellars
Thirst in America in the Late Twenties and Early Thirties: Prohibition
The American Experience | Hoover Dam