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SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1930-1939 - Accurate as of May 2005
Information on America from 1930-1939. Overlaps with some of the information provided in 1900-1929 links. Also discusses the depression, unemployment, and the dust bowl.
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The Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.html
Article on these men who fought during the war of 1936-39
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Photographs from the era
America in the 1930’s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/home_1.html
Films, print, display, radio programs—any form of cultural expression
America ’s Great Depression
http://www.amatecon.com/greatdepression.html
Overview, timeline, facts and figures, causes and cures, and more
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Chronicles the lives of Americans who lived during the Depression years
Anti-Saloon League: 1893-1933
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon
In-depth history of group’s struggle to win approval of national prohibition
Babe Ruth
http://www.baberuth.com/
Biography, photographs, statistics, links
Bruno Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Case
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Hauptmann/Hauptmann.htm
Chronology, pictures, key players, evidence, trial transcripts
A Case of Unemployment
http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/EconomicCatastrophe/GreatDepression.html
Examines recessions and recoveries of the 1930; looks at banking and unemployment
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3935/
Article about his life
The Depression News: The 1930s
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
All kinds of news of events and happenings from this time period
Diner City
http://www.dinercity.com
Diner directory, diner reviews, and other roadside information
Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine
http://www.dismuke.org/
Streaming RealAudio recordings of late 19 th and early 20 th century music
Dust Bowl
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl
Texts adapted from oral history interviews
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/amex/eleanor
Excerpts from FBI file, read her newspaper columns, and more
Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.mhrcc.org/fdr/fdr.html
Transcripts of 14 of his radio broadcasts are available here
FDR
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/presidents/nf/featured/fdr/fdec.html
His early career, presidential career, domestic and foreign affairs policies, and more
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/fdr/
Links to sites about him
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
Documents, photographs, recording, and other primary resources
Great Depression
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/greatdepression/
Links to information on this topic
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
http://hoover.nara.gov
Biographies, virtual exhibits, links
The Hollywood Thirties
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/4344/stage1.html
Detailed history of moviemaking in the 1930s—stage setting, codes, players, daring films, new directions
Life Time Machines: Cover Collection (1936-1972)
http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/covers
Search by subject, keyword, or photographer
New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html
Scholarly article that looks at the lasting impacts of this time period on our cultural history
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org
Articles, lesson plans, images
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
Images of items from the productions of Macbeth, Power, and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Riding the Rails
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails
At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America
Slouching Towards Utopia? The Great Crash and the Great Slump
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
In-depth economic account of the 1929 Crash and resulting Depression; full of charts
Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/dustbowl
Describes the 8 year drought that plagued mid west farmers during the 1930s
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables
USDA Historical Photos
http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm
Collection of photographs provides a portrait of rural and small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s; arranged by subjects
Voices from the Thirties
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/exhome.html
Life histories of people in the depression from the Federal Writer’s Project
Women and Social Movements in the US , 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Editorial projects by students at SUNY that pose an interpretative question and provide a collection of 550 documents and 100 images that address the question.
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