Links for the Depression Era Project

Collections of Links

Headlines of the 1900s
Includes pages on the 1930s and 40s
http://archer2000.tripod.com/index.html

Links Pages to the Great Depression
http://bvsd.k12.co.us/~deault/gredep.html

Twentieth Century Pages: 1931-1940
Includes information about Science, Medicine, and Technology as well as Fads and Popular Culture
http://future.newsday.com/century/4cov426a.htm

Alameda County Links Page to History by Decade
http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/1930s.asp
http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/1940s.asp

Big Picture: The Hows and Whys and General Information

Casues and Effects of the Great Depression
http://oasis.bellevue.k12.wa.us/sammamish/sstudies.dir/hist_docs.dir/grtdepression.mn.html

The Crash and the Great Depression
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture18.html

The Great Depression and the New Deal
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture19.html

American Cultural History from 1930-1939
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade30.html

American Cultural History from 1940-1949
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade40.html

The Stock Market Crash of 1929
http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm

1932 Lindenburgh Case
http://www.lindberghtrial.com/

Women's History
(also check the daily life and biographies section)

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

Government, Politics, and Policies

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

Civilian Conservation Corps
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/museccc/index.html

The Great Depression and the New Deal
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depression/

Works Progress Administration
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX10.html

Science, Medicine, and Technology

Inventions of the 30s and 40s
http://library.thinkquest.org/26451/contents/timeline/time12.htm

Civil and Human Rights

National Center for Farmworker Health
http://www.ncfh.org/aboutfws.htm

Civil Rights in the Depression Era
http://www.eeoc.gov/35th/videos/longintro-text.html

Museum of Afro American History, Boston
http://www.afroammuseum.org/

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination:
Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/085_disc.html