What do you know about Zion National Park? Use this site to learn more about this national park. This site features activities, maps and more.

During the Great Depression in Canada, the country and its people saw social unrest increase and the emergence of new political parties take place.

In 2008, America faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Examine how we got to this point and how the government worked to end it the crisis. Examine the following resource that contains a summary, graphs,...

Read these series of essays written by U.S. Senate historians that detail important events and people during the era of investigations in the Senate just before the Great Depression and continuing up to the entrance to World War II. The...

This site, from the Library of Congress, provides a recording project by the WPA during the Depression Era of folk music collected throughout the southern states of the U.S. Supplemented by photos and other material to document life...

Here, you can read a very brief history of the development and use of prescription barbiturates, as well as descriptions of ultrashort, short, intermediate, and long-acting barbiturates.

A detailed account of the background, crimes and capture of famous criminals Clyde Champion Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Links to the FBI's archives featuring remarkable primary documents relating to the couple's misdeeds.

Part of Huey Long's plan to help Americans in the Depression was to grant Americans $5,000. This is a primary source site that provides the details of his plan.

The U.S. Department of Labor provides this brief biography of Cabinet member, Frances Perkins, who led reform efforts in the realm of labor law during the Great Depression. Short, biographical sketch with good, factual information being...

This site is filled with posters from World War II, the Great Depression, and World War I which encouraged using food wisely, growing victory gardens, and helping harvest the crops on commercial farms.

This very complete lesson plan explains the history of the Social Security Act of 1935, its history and importance to the elderly during the Great Depression, and its importance today. Everything necessary to teach the lesson and assess...

This lesson plan from the Internal Revenue Service gives the history of the progressive income tax which helped fund the social programs implemented during the Great Depression, and the war effort after the country joined the Allies in...

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...

This collection uses primary sources to explore the cultural impact of swing dancing.

This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.

This collection uses primary sources to explore John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Deal.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age it started.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Bracero Program.

What conditions are necessary to create a hurricane? Where do hurricanes occur? When is hurricane season? What is the difference between a tropical cyclone and a hurricane? How is the strength of a hurricane measured? Where do hurricanes...

This site contains a discussion of Functionalist Modernism using the city of Viipuri as an example. Architects of the time are also discussed.

This collection uses primary sources to explore women's work on the home front during World War II.