SCORE Resources on the Great Depression
American Cultural History-1930's
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade30.html
1930's Home
Page
"The 1930s in America were a time of unparalleled contradiction and
complexity. Encapsulated loosely on one end by Black Tuesday
of the Great Depression and on the other end by the bombing of Pearl Harbor,
the years between 1929 and 1941 were characterized by what Terry Cooney
calls "Balancing Acts," a dance between big government and various regional
movements, with the depths of the Depression and the height of the Modern
Age thrown in for good measure. Despite its cultural richness, the
1930s remain nearly invisible in contemporary discussions of America's
artistic, cultural, political, economic, and social development.
This site is an attempt to shed light on that decade and emphasize its
importance in American thought and culture."
Black Thursday,
October 24, 1929
"Thursday, October 24, 1929 has the dubious honor of being called Black
Thursday because it
was on this day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed, heralding
the end of the "Roaring
Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression. We've all read
about it in the history books,
but what was it like for the people of the time? What did they see
in the newspaper when it
happened? What did they see that might have warned them of the impending
trouble -- or worse,
might have helped cause it?? "
We Make Do-Recalling
the Great Depression
"'We Made Do' is an on-going project of the students in Mooresville
High School in Mooresville, Indiana. The project's focus is on the 1930's,
the era of the Great Depression. It contains oral histories, period photographs
and e-mailed contributions of viewers who have taken time to share their
memories of living in this period of economic upheaval."
American Life
Histories-Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project
"These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project
of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work
Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940." Part of the Library of
Congress web site.
Walker
Evans Project
"The objective of this project is to show how Walker Evans' photographs
taken in the 1930's, portraying a realistic view of the poverty-stricken
rural south, revolutionized the standards of documentary photography."
Growing Up
White in the South in the 1930s
Part of a student ThinkQuest project on To Kill a Mockingbird".
The New Deal Network
A comprehensive web site on the New Deal with photographs, documents,
and other resources.
Then
and Now Prices
A table that helps students understand the value of a dollar in the
1930s.
Surviving the Dust
Bowl
A web site to accompany a PBS American Experience episode. It
includes a timeline, maps, interviews, documents, and links.
Voices
From the Dust Bowl
Oral histories from the Library of Congress.
The
Day of the Black Blizzard
A web site on the Dust Bowl from the Discovery Channel.
Verda E. Galbreath
Carter Diary
One woman's experiences and daily life during the depression from 1934
to 1938.
Civilian Conservation
Corps
Articles, links, photos, documents, and much more.
Riding the
Rails
A web site to accompany an American Experience episode on teenagers
who left home during the Great Depression to look for work by hopping freight
cars.