Directory of Great Depression Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the Great Depression, the worst economic disaster in American Tuesday. Though America's economic decline began in the mid-1920s, the date most commonly associated with the start of the Depression is Oct. 24, 1929. On that day, the stock market collapsed and some $30 billion vanished into thin air.

Subcategories

• Hoover, Herbert
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Resources in This Category

• A New Deal for the Arts

  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/new_deal_for_the_arts/
  Tells about the federal program employing artists as part of the New Deal. Includes several virtual exhibits of the works created during this era.

• Documenting America

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
  More than 100,000 photographs from the Library of Congress collection show the impact of the Depression on America's people.

• The American Experience: Riding the Rails

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rails/
  At the height of the era, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. This site tells the stories of ten of them -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced. From PBS.

• The Great Depression

  http://www.awesomestories.com/history/great-depression
  Take a virtual journey back in time to see how destitute Americans endured poverty, homelessness and fear of the future.

• War, Prosperity and Depression

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/war-prosperity-and-depression/the-great-depression.php
  Short essay explores the causes and effects of the depression.

 

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