Library of Congress
Loc: Voices of the Dust Bowl: Scrapbook
Explore this online scrapbook filled with articles and ephemera relating to the 1930s migrant farm issue in California.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Dust Bowl Days
Seven-lesson collection of lessons and suggested activities for instructing early learners about the Dust Bowl using a variety of primary sources (songs, letters, photos, etc.).
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
In this lesson learners will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly is forced to leave the life of a wealthy landowner's daughter surrounded by servants to become a servant herself among an extended...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: America by Air: Airline Expansion and Innovation
Air travel grew in the 1920s and 1930s despite the Great Depression. Read about the new commercial airlines of the time and what it was like to fly at the dawn of commercial passenger flight.
US Department of State
Info Usa: Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies
U.S. foreign trade and global economic policies have changed direction dramatically during the more than two centuries that the United States has been a country. In the early days of the nation's history, government and business mostly...
Library of Congress
Loc: Bound for Glory
A fascinating look at American life from 1939 to 1943 through photographs. The buildings, cars, clothing, and stores are very different from today. This is an excellent way to get a feel for the turn of the decade -- from the Depression...
New York Times
New York Times: On This Day: Barrow and Woman Are Slain by Police in Louisana Trap
This article takes readers back to the day of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker's famous capture in a small Louisiana town. The article from the 1934 archives is written in harrowing "old-time" journalistic detail.
Curated OER
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 does a nice job describing their forced dispersement by the army, which strained the...
Curated OER
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 does a nice job describing their forced dispersement by the army, which strained the...
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.
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...
Digital History
Digital History: National Recovery Administration
Resource provides an overview of the codes set by the National Recovery Administration that helped industry and labor in the 1930s and their positive and negative affects.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Public Enemy #1
Companion website for the PBS documentary on the crime spree of John Dillinger, an infamous gangster. Included are a transcript of the film, biographies of people in the film, pictures of gangsters of the era, and a teacher's guide for...
University of Oregon
Mapping History: American History
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.