SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in U.S. history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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Under Learning Centers, click on THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
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Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in world history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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Covers people, places, and events from mid-15th century to the present.
Do you want to use Modern World History Online at home?

For information about a person, use Biography in Context, one of the InfoTrac databases. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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Search for your topic. When you view results, be sure to click MULTIMEDIA for photos, maps and video clips.
Do you want to use Britannica Online at home?

WEB SITES

Thirties Search Engine
This custom search engine looks in all the links on the WEB SITE portion of this page. It finds MOST information, but not EVERYTHING, so you may want to search individual web sites, too.

American Memory
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

• Great Depression Overview
• The Migrant Experience
• Afternoon in a Pushcart Peddler's Colony
• Hoovervilles
• New York Farmer's letter to President Roosevelt
• Migrant Mother
• The Dust Bowl

American Cultural History 1930-1939
An overview of the decade from the Kingwood (Texas) College Library.

The Great Depression & World War II, 1929-1945
The Library of Congress American Memory Collection presents an excellent overview of the Great Depression in photographs.

Stock Market Crash of 1929
Learn how the Stock Market Crash ushered in the Great Depression.

Looking Back at the Crash of '29
The New York Times looks back at the Stock Market Crash of 1929, including the front page news from the 1929 New York Times.

Authentic History Center
Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture of the 1930s. Special section on MUSIC OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

Historical Periods in Television History
History plus links to old TV shows.

Fashions of the 1930s
Magazine illustrations and real photos (primary sources) from the thirties. Ignore the many ads on this site...

America in the 1930's
From the University of Virginia, a look at the 1930's through the lenses of its films, radio programs, literature, journalism, museums, exhibitions, architecture, art, etc.

Voices from the Thirties - Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
A history of the Federal Writers' Project (a New Deal Program) illustrated with period photos.

Prohibition
The Anti-Saloon League was a major force in the crusade to make alcoholic beverages illegal.

Temperance & Prohibition
Essays, information and images related to the history of prohibition in the U.S. from the Ohio State Univ. Dept. of History.

Voices from the Dust Bowl
From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Information from the FDR Presidential Library and Museum.

Hoover Online
Access for students to the Herber Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

1932 Presidential Election
Dave Leip's Atlas of Presidential Elections provides maps, data, and statistics.

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updated 01/26/2011