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Weird History
What Hygiene Was Like During The Great Depression
When you think of hygiene during the Great Depression, you might automatically assume the widespread unemployment and poverty resulted in a generally dirty and unkempt population. However, while many people were forced to live in...
Independent Producers
The Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl was one of the worst man-made environmental disasters. It turned the southern Great Plains of the U.S. into a desert. When the native prairie grass was pulled out and replaced with wheat fields, the loose soil had nothing...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - The Dust Bowl
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Mazz Media
Great Depression
This live-action video program is about the term Great Depression. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term Great Depression through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams...
Hip Hughes History
The Dust Bowl Explained: US History Review
What caused the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. What was the Dust Bowl and what were the effects of the Dust Bowl. Yup, it's a Social Studies lecture designed to win you points and keep you awake. As much as the Dust Bowl allows...
Bedtime History
The Dust Bowl for Kids
Step into the 1930s to learn about the Dust Bowl, one of the most difficult times in American history. This simple and clear video explains how years of drought, poor farming practices, and powerful windstorms turned parts of the Great...
Curated Video
Dust Bowl
A look at the devastating conditions in the central plains states during much of the Great Depression.
Reading Through History
History Brief: Okies During the Great Depression
Check out our Great Depression workbook: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Depression-Dirty-Thirties/dp/1500862584/ In this video, the plight and flight of the Okies from the Dust bowl region to California is documented.
Reading Through History
History Brief: the Dust Bowl
Check out our 1930s workbook here: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Depression-Dirty-Thirties/dp/1500862584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450057966&sr=8-1&keywords=jake+henderson+the+great+depression In this episode of History Brief, the causes and...
The March of Time
US Dust storms farmlands
MOT 1935: U.S. DUST STORMS: WS Dust storm covering farm machines. WS Farmhouse on field, dust storm BG. WS Cloudy dust storm. WS Barn, dust storm BG. WS Farmland covered in sand, wasteland. Farming depression, Dust Bowl, drought, The...
The March of Time
US Farming depression flooding
MOT 1935: U.S. FARMING DEPRESSION: WS Desert wasteland, once farm. WS Empty farmhouse. Destroyed farm machinery. WS Flood waters washing trees away. WS Refugees in boats. WS Floodwaters. VS Eroded soil. Dust Bowl, over use of land, Great...
Reading Through History
Woody Guthrie: I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
http://readingthroughhistory.com/ This is a picture compilation of photos from the Great Depression. The song is from Woody Guthrie, and it is titled I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore. Many of the photos are of Okies who fled the...
Reading Through History
History Brief: Woody Guthrie Biography
Teachers, check out our resource manual: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Depression-Dirty-Thirties/dp/1500862584/ Unquestionably, the most enduring musical figure to emerge from the Dust Bowl era was a man named Woody Guthrie. Why was Woody...
Curated Video
Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the worst man-made ecological crisis in US history – when irresponsible farming habits, drought and storms led to Black Blizzards that took the lives of thousands.
PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
PBS
American Masters: The American Dream in the Grapes of Wrath
For many farmers displaced by the Great Depression and the droughts of the 1930s, California represented the American Dream: a place to find work, to establish a new life, and to provide for their families. The reality they found, as...
National Woman's History Museum
Women's History Minute: Dorothea Lange
Teach young scholars how to, in the words of Dorothea Lange, see life without a camera by looking at her life through the lens of a short video. Viewers are introduced to Lange's life, her work, and some of her famous photographs.
Biography
John Steinbeck- Mini Biography
John Steinbeck, called the voice of working-class Americans, is the subject of this mini-biography that includes interviews and images to provide an overview of his life and works.
Other
Reading Through History: History Brief: The Dust Bowl
Why did the Dust Bowl happen? How severe was the damage? This video discusses the causes and impact of the Great Depression. [4:04]
A&E Television
History.com: Dust Bowl
A video clip featuring the agricultural phenomenon that became known as the Dust Bowl. Shows the massive dust clouds that began in the Great Plains and reached clear across the United States to New York, causing millions of people to...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Plow That Broke the Plains
This short acclaimed documentary shows the Great Plains at the time of the Great Depression and how they were reduced to what became known as the Dust Bowl. [26:00]