Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe is presented in this brief biography, highlighting his writings which exemplified the American culture of the 1920's-1930's. Click on "Thomas Wolfe Activities" for related resources.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 8 11 14: Modern Day Amelia Earhart Circumnavigates the Globe!
Find out about Amelia Rose Earhart, the namesake of the 1930's pilot, and her successful flight around the planet.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Dust Bowl Exodus: How Drought and the Depression Took Their Toll
Activity-based resource on the social and economic conditions of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Students select from a list of comprehensive reference material to research the times and then choose a 1930s artist on which to report....
Stanford University
Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Dust Bowl
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Dust Bowl of the 1930's in the United States is often a topic of great debate. What caused the phenomenon of storms? Was it the government or Mother Nature or a combination of the two? This lesson...
Other
University of Victoria: Canada's Rights Movement: A History
The history of human rights movements in Canada from the 1930s is explained in detail and backed up by extensive support materials and primary documents. Much of the focus is on individuals and NGOs (non-governmental organizations)...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Address on Constitution Day
Read the speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 17, 1937, honoring the Constitution and applying the tenets of the Constitution to contemporary issues in the 1930s.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Electricity for All
An article on the Rural Electrification Administration and its efforts to provide affordable electricity for rural dwellers during the 1930s. Includes links to related topics and a timeline.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Transatlantic Souvenirs
The Smithsonian's maritime collections contain many objects relating to the steamship Leviathan, the largest American passenger ship of the 1920s and 1930s. View these mementos originally preserved by passengers and crew to remember...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Family Camping: York Beach, Maine
The Cate family is on vacation at Decatur Motor Camp, York Beach, on the southern coast of Maine. It's late afternoon and the Cates are settling down after their day. Mrs. Cate and her daughter are preparing dinner in the trailer; Mr....
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.
Kansas State
Kansas State Univ. & Usda: Wind Erosion Dust Bowl Photos
This website uses photographs to show the human impact that wind erosion had on people's lives during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Other
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Establishment of the Fdic
Read about the background of the banking failures and crises in the 1920s and early 1930s which led to the passage of the Emergency Bank Act, and the eventual establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Organic Farming: Conserving Top Soil
Against the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil.
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: Documenting the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl and resulting western migration that occurred in the 1930s is explored in this video [5:44] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. The agricultural devastation and ensuing migration...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Marlene Dietrich
Marie Dietrich was one of the most popular film and music stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
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...
New York Times
New York Times: An in Depth History of Group F.64
This article is based on a book by Mary Street Alinder, who had worked with Anselm Adams. Group f.64 was a group of photographers in the 1930s who advocated for a pure style of photography.
Library of Congress
Loc: California Folk Music From 1930s
The Library of Congress provides a collection of 35 hours of folk music recorded during the Depression. The project is unique in that it recorded Slavic, Middle Eastern, European, Spanish and English speaking peoples who lived in...
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation: George "Machine Gun" Kelly
Information about the life, crimes (including quotes from ransom notes and newspaper articles), and capture of the infamous gangster, George "Machine Gun" Kelly.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Kirov Murder and Purges
Ibiblio.org provides this brief article about the Kirov murder.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Dust Bowl Days
Seven-lesson plan collection of lessons and suggested activities for instructing early learners about the Dust Bowl using a variety of primary sources (songs, letters, photos, etc.).
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Art Deco
A description of the art deco movement, with a chronological list of artists and links to famous works and biographies.
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