Wessels Living History Farm
Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: The Fsa, Farm Security Administration
Find photographs, brief videos, and commentary about what loans from the Farm Security Administration meant to poor farmers during the Great Depression.
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: America in the 1930s: The Bonus Army
Vivid and succinct account of the efforts and struggles of WWI veterans who marched on Washtington D.C. to demand their veterans' benefits. Article describes their forced dispersement by the army, which strained the confidence of the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Documenting America: Tenant Farmers
This resource on America during the Great Depression contains photographs of tenant farmers and their communities during the 1930's, taken by photographer Arthur Rothstein. Also includes information on the time period.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making:by the People, for the People
A great lesson plan that explores the attempts to revive the American economy after the Great Depression through the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Included are a video, text and questions, and primary source materials. A...
Other
California Historical Society: California History Online
With over four hundred original images, this site covers periods in California's history from 1600 to the 1930s. Topics covered include the geography and climate of California, early aboriginal groups, the first European explorers, the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Up From the Dust
Players take on the roles of twins Frank and Ginny Dunn, whose family wheat farm is devastated by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. As they experience the hardships of the 1930s, players learn about Americans' strategies for survival...
Curated OER
History Matters: Unemployed Councils of the 1930s
This account by Communist activist Anna Taffler details her activities working with the Communist-led Unemployment Councils of the 1930s. These organizations worked in hundreds of local communities to demand jobs and better treatment...
Curated OER
History Matters: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s
Audio and text version of interview with a woman recalling her experience helping hoboes during the 1930s.
University of Oxford (UK)
American National Biography Online: Depressions, Economic
Depressions are sustained troughs in the business cycle characterized by declines in output, employment, income, and trade. While they date from the earliest years of American history, little is known about them from the Colonial Era....
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "Wingwalker"
This site provides a variety of book connections as well as research links for the book "Wingwalker" by Rosemary Wells about 1930s-era stunt flying.
Curated OER
America in the 1930s: The Great Depression
Well-rounded and succinctly-worded site that focuses on how the Great Depression affected the more vulnerable segments of society, particularly working families, women, and minorities. A good site for giving students a quick overview of...
Curated OER
America in the 1930s: The Great Depression
Well-rounded and succinctly-worded site that focuses on how the Great Depression affected the more vulnerable segments of society, particularly working families, women, and minorities. A good site for giving students a quick overview of...
The History Place
The History Place: Dorothea Lange: Migrant Farm Families
Learn about the history of migrant workers in America by viewing the work of Dorothea Lange, one of the most famous photographers of the Great Depression.
Digital History
Digital History: Why It Happened
How did a country with such a booming economy in the 1920s sink into economic disaster in the 1930s? Prosperity was just an illusion. See the many causes of the Great Depression, and find out how all the signs were missed or disregarded.
Wessels Living History Farm
Living History Farm: Bank Failures
The bank runs and bank failures of the 1930s are described here, as well as personal interviews with people who experienced the Great Depression.
Digital History
Digital History: Wagner Act
Read about the growth of labor unions during the 1930s as the Great Depression continued, due to the passage of the Wagner Act. Find out about the strikes and the conflict between labor and management, as well as conflict within the...
Other
Woody Guthrie: The People's Troubador
The story of Woody Guthrie, the folk musician who wrote the score for the 1930s and the Great Depression.
US National Archives
Nara: Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
The National Archives and Records Administration, provides this article with historic photographs of people and places in the 1930s.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Picture Review of the 1930's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to introduce or review the major aspects of the 1930's, including the Stock Market Crash, Hoover's presidency, the Bonus Army, the Dust Bowl, FDR and his New Deal Programs.
Other
Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1930 1939
Excellent website offering information about life in the 1930s. Learn about art, literature, books, literature, fashion, people, music, education, and radio of the era of the Depression and the New Deal.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: A Photo Dossier on Sharecropping
Photographs from the 1930s of both black and white sharecroppers, with some accompanying explanation.
Read Works
Read Works: How Dorothea Lange and John Steinbeck Captured California
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how photographer Dorothea Lange and author John Steinbeck portrayed life in California in the late 1930's. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
Other
Lincoln City Libraries: Nebraska's Federal Writers Project
Rudolph Umland's writing, correspondence, and scrapbooks offer revealing portraits of life in Depression era Nebraska, and a uniquely well-documented insider's view of the local literary community and the Nebraska Federal Writers' Project.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: About the Dust Bowl
Thorough discussion of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s with accompanying map, photos, and timeline that describe it in detail.