Social Studies Links:
Great Depression
Address & Description
Site
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Library of
Congress
Library of Congress: America from the Great Depression to World War - images in
the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection . Parts of this
project emphasize rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm
mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Library of
Congress
Voices from the Dust Bowl – Migrant Worker Collection – multi-format collection
documenting the everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in California from
1940-41
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ccc/
American Experience: The Civilian Conservation Corp. Video and resource materials.
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/crash/
American Experience: The Crash of 1929. Video and resource materials.
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rails/
American Experience: Riding the Rails. Video and resource materials.
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/
American Experience: Surviving the Dustbowl. Video and resource materials.
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Roosevelt
Institute
New Deal Network – an educational guide to the 1930’s – documents, photos, exhibits
Scottish rite
Teenage Hoboes of the Great Depression – photographs, letters and oral histories
Masonic
Museum &
Library
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/depression.htm
University of
Illinois
http://www.monh.org/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/
Formerly the
National Heritage
Museum
Misc. resources for study of Depression era
Uys, E.L.
Personal site
http://erroluys.com/frontpage.htm
Errol Lincoln Uys: a writer’s website – materials on Depression era hobo experience,
including, but not limited to:
http://erroluys.com/HoboLettersfromRidingtheRails.htm
Letters from the Boxcar Boys and Girls of the Great Depression
http://erroluys.com/HowAmericansHelpedEachOtherDuringtheGreatDepression.htm
How Young Americans Survived the Hard Times of the Great Depression
K. A. Meier
Updated November 2015