The University of Chicago Press offers an extended excerpt from the book "Daring to Look", by Anne Whiston Spirn. This book takes a close look at documentary photographer Dorothea Lange's career and her unpublished 1939 portfolio.

Using song lyrics and Dorothea Lange's photographs, students will explore the hardships migrant workers faced during the Great Depression.

What a fabulous resource documenting the lives of farmers across the country during the Great Depression. Talented photographers, working for the Farm Security Administration, were sent out to take pictures, which were then published in...

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...