- America From the Great Depression to World War II
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Archive of photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) which span the years 1935-45.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
- Dillinger, John (1902?-1934) (6)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Dillinger__John__1902__1934_
- Verda Galbreath Carter Diary 1934-1938
Personal journal of life during the Depression on Northeast Ohio farm.
carterdiary.freeservers.com
- Dust Bowl (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Dust_Bowl
- Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Lindbergh_Baby_Kidnapping
- California Gold
Listen to multicultural Northern California folk music from the 1930s. Collected as part of a WPA project and archived by the Library of Congress.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html
- Kelly, George - Machine Gun Kelly (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Kelly__George___Machine_Gun_Kelly
- Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful
Discussion of the cultural iconography and importance of the Hoover Dam's construction during Depression-era America.
xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/hoover/front2.html
- Battle of the Overpass
About the 1937 clash between UAW organizers and the Ford Motor Company's "service men".
www.reuther.wayne.edu/exhibits/battle_intro.html
- Floyd, Charles Arthur - Pretty Boy Floyd (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Floyd__Charles_Arthur___Pretty_Boy_Floyd
- The American Experience: Riding the Rails
Film based on the story of ten teenage hobos who lived on the road during the 1930s, criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight trains.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails
- American Experience: America and the Holocaust
Explores the complex social and political factors that led the American government to turn its back on the plight of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust
- Parker, Bonnie and Clyde Barrow (10)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Parker__Bonnie_and_Clyde_Barrow
- Scottsboro Boys Trial (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Scottsboro_Boys_Trial
- Gillis, Lester M. - Baby Face Nelson (1908 - 1934) (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../1930s/Gillis__Lester_M____Baby_Face_Nelson__1908___1934_
- 1930 U.S. Census@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Census_Records/1930_U_S__Census
- 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco@
dir.yahoo.com/.../1939_40_Golden_Gate_International_Exposition__San_Francisco
- 1939-40 World's Fair, New York@
dir.yahoo.com/.../World_s_Fairs_and_Expositions/1939_40_World_s_Fair__New_York
- America in the 1930s
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Examines the years between Black Tuesday and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, through the film, print, radio, and design of the era.
xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
- Hindenburg Disaster@
Learn about the Hindenburg disaster of the German airship, zeppelin. Sites include history, disaster details, theories regarding the disaster, and picture gallery.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Hindenburg_Disaster
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