Primary source photos showing the devastation of the Dust Bowl and refugee migration to California.

Seven-lesson collection of lessons and suggested activities for instructing early learners about the Dust Bowl using a variety of primary sources (songs, letters, photos, etc.).

Discover the causes, effects, the Black Blizzards, and the response to the Dust Bowl.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...

Against the backdrop of the devastating 1930's Dust Bowl, this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA profiles an organic farmer and the techniques he uses to conserve topsoil.

Discusses what caused the 1929 stock market crash and why the American economy went so rapidly and dramatically downhill. Also explains how a stock market crash can have such a far-reaching impact.

Examines the challenges faced by the average American, by African Americans, and by farmers on the Great Plains during the Great Depression, and the government's response or lack thereof.

This website provides a large collection of resources, many of them primary resources, for studying about the impact of the Great Depression on Washington State.

The story of Woody Guthrie, the folk musician who wrote the score for the 1930s and the Great Depression.

Presents a list of the fifteen worst natural disasters to strike the United States and its territories, along with descriptions, year, number of casualties, cost, and where each occurred.

This lesson plan engages young scholars in creating dramatic monologues from certain scenes in The Grapes of Wrath. Primary sources from the Library of Congress are used to provide essential background content about the setting of the...

Discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's First and Second New Deals and the different programs that got people back to work and put food on their tables. Looks at the successes and failures of these programs and the criticisms leveled at...

An overview of the ambitious goals of the Farm Security Administration as part of the New Deal. Find out the many ways the FSA wanted to help farmers help themselves. Because this article is from the Oklahoma Historical Society, special...

Provides a definition of a drought while exploring types, causes and effects, economic, environmental, and social impact, and how to manage one.