Great Depression & the New Deal

The American Experience - The Great Depression
A brief overview of the topic from PBS.

The American Experience - The New Deal
A brief overview from PBS.

The American Experience – Timeline of the Great Depression
A timeline from PBS.

Documenting America – America: From Great Depression to World War II
Offers black & white and color photos covering the Great Depression to the mobilization for WWII. Allows searches by keyword, subject, creator, and geographic location. From the Library of Congress’s American Memory project.

New Deal Cultural Programs
Presents information on New Deal programs implemented under Roosevelt. Focuses on cultural programs like the WPA and the Federal Projects in Art, Music, Theatre, and Writing. From the Webster's World of Cultural Democracy, a part of the non-profit group the Institute for Cultural Democracy.

New Deal Network: A Guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s
A guide sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that has links to speeches, letters and other texts, a photo gallery, and other information on the Great Depression.

Riding the Rails
During the Great Depression, 250,000 teenagers became hobos, living on the rails. Select Special Features to read stories by former teen hobos. From PBS.

Surviving the Dust Bowl
PBS provides personal stories, photographs and a map illustrating the location of the Dust Bowl.

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Last Updated: May 22, 2012