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Prezi: The 1930's: The Great Depression in Alabama

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow offers an overview of life during the Great Depression of the 1930's, with a focus on the devastating impact it had on residents of the state of Alabama.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Picturing the 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter a virtual movie theater and learn about art of the 1930s in the United States. Exhibitions include: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People.
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Library of Congress

Loc: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music: 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
This online presentation, California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in 12 languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians. It includes sound recordings,...
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History Link

History Link: Dance Marathons of the 1920s and 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
Funny fad in the innocent 1920s that turned tragic in the desperate 1930s. The authors provide an excellent, comprehensive resource on the history of the dance marathon.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
During the hard economic times of the 1930s, farm families turned to low-cost entertainment such as barn dances. By listening to personal stories, discover what farm life was like during the Great Depression.
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Musicals 101

Musicals 101: Musicals in the 1930's

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you'll find an in-depth look at musical theatre and revues in the 1930s. You'll find info on the famous duo Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, and a few others.
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Musicals 101

Musical 101: The Revues in the 1930's

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a look at the musical revues of the 1930s. You'll find info on Ziegfeld Follies, Pins & Needles, Irving Berlin, and many more.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: 1930s Isolationism

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the ways the American government and people looked inward during the 1930s, isolating themselves from actions taking place in Europe and Asia.
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New Deal Network

New Deal Network: The Great Depression: 1930s and the Roosevelt Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
The New Deal Network is devoted to students and teachers researching the Great Depression and the New Deal. Features include an extensive database of photographs, political cartoons, texts and a New Deal Network Classroom that has lesson...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Redlining Richmond 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the New Deal, the HOLC assessed neighborhoods using a number of factors in order to identify safe places for mortgages. The assessment surveys and map produced for Richmond, which this site allows you to explore in detail,...
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: Fsa Photographers

For Students 9th - 10th
What a fabulous resource documenting the lives of farmers across the country during the Great Depression. Talented photographers, working for the Farm Security Administration, were sent out to take pictures, which were then published in...
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History Buff: History of Newspapers in 1930's Chicago

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
First-person recount of how journalism and the papers were affected by outside forces in the 1930s. One focus is on circulation, delivery, and problems faced because of crime.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: American Isolationism in the 1930's

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting facts on the reasons and effects of American Isolationism policy in the 1930s.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: 1920's and 1930's Undercover

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a guessing game in which each page reveals photographic clues of famous people or things of the 1920's and 1930's.
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Curated OER

History Matters: A Woman Remembers Hoboes of the 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
Audio and text version of interview with a woman recalling her experience helping hoboes during the 1930s.
Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Unemployed Councils of the 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Virginia

America in the 1930s: The Plow That Broke the Plains

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about iconic film The Plow that Broke the Plains regarding the Dust Bowl that ravaged the Great Plains and brought hardship to thousands of families.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: The Politics of the Rea

For Students 9th - 10th
Electrifying rural America revolutionized farm life. Read about how the Rural Electrification Administration was instituted and what had to be done to encourage rural families to form electric co-ops. Included is an interview with a...
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US Department of State

Office of the Historian: The Neutrality Acts, 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
You can see by reading the descriptions of these three neutrality acts how determined some in Congress were to isolate the United States and keep it out of World War II.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: Crash!

For Students 9th - 10th
A multi-page site that focuses on the effects of the Great Depression primarily in rural America in the early days before the election of Franklin Roosevelt. Find videos interviews with those who lived through the trying times.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: The Fsa, Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Find photographs, brief videos, and commentary about what loans from the Farm Security Administration meant to poor farmers during the Great Depression.
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Kingwood Library: American Cultural History: 1930 1939

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: The Harlem Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on The Harlem Renaissance, the period between the end of WW I through mid 1930s when African Americans were recognized for their literature, music, and art. It discusses their themes and lists...

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