PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Great Depression: Creating Narrative Through Photography
This video [4:15] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning provides a documentary photographer's perspective of the severe economic despair and difficult living conditions that characterized the...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: The Great Depression
Read about the economy and politics in Texas during the time of the Great Depression.
Library of Congress
Loc: Lesson Plans: The Great Depression
Students will gain a strong understanding of the Great Depression with these lesson plans for a variety of academic levels. Topics include literature, government and migration.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Compensation From Before Wwi Through Great Depression [Pdf]
This interesting article from the Bureau of Labor Statistics discusses how working conditions and low pay prior to World War I led to the increase in union membership. Read how the government viewed labor and labor unions during World...
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: Great Depression: Help and a New Deal
Original photographs highlight the New Deal programs intended to aid families and individuals during the Great Depression.
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
Univ. Of California: Calisphere: Great Depression: Everyday Life in Hard Times
Original photos that look at housing, employment, and unemployment during the hard times of the Great Depression and the changing role of the federal government with the New Deal.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Wpa: Antidote to the Great Depression?
[Free Registration/Login Required] A good assessment of the Works Progress Administration and its contribution not only of providing jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression, but for the lasting improvements it made in the...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Women and the Great Depression
[Free Registration/Login Required] A very interesting essay showing how the Great Depression affected women as housewives and as employees. See how many New Deal programs discriminated against women, and find out who supported women's...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Great Depression" by Mike Kubic
A learning module that begins with "The Great Depression" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: The Great Depression
This is a collection of 12 Grade-Leveled texts (3-11) on the topic The Great Depression. On October 29, 1929, the Roaring Twenties ended with the crash of the American stock market, initiating The Great Depression. The world struggled to...
University of Washington
University of Washington: The Great Depression in Washington State
This comprehensive and well-organized resource walks students through the Great Depression using concise summaries, pictures, and many primary source documents.
University of Washington
The Great Depression in Washington State: Hoovervilles and Homelessness
Information about the Hoovervilles in Seattle, Washington, and surrounding cities during the Great Depression. Find maps that show the locations of shack towns around the city, and follow hyperlinks that give a deeper look at...
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Labor Unions During the Great Depression and the New Deal
A timeline of events related to the Great Depression, labor unions and the New Deal along with primary sources.
Other
Amistad Digital Resource: The Great Depression
Provides discussion on the Great Depression, the effect this economic crisis had on African American families, and how Roosevelt's New Deal provided relief for black people.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
Series of annotated photographs that document the realities of Depression-era America.
Flow of History
Flow of History: The Great Depression
The Great Depression, its causes and effects, is profiled through text and a colored graphic flowchart of events. Visually appealing for both students and teachers.
Other
Bringing History Home: The Great Depression
This 4th grade unit introduces basic concepts of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and to historical analysis processes. Following a trade book and video documentary overview of the 1920s and 1930s, students examine photos, letters,...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Riding the Rails: Timeline of the Great Depression
This timeline of the Depression begins in October of 1929 and highlights significant statistics or events, sometimes month by month, through November of 1940 when Roosevelt is re-elected for his third term. From bank collapses to dust...
Library of Economics and Liberty
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Great Depression
For upper level classes and abilities only. A very scholarly explanation of the causes of the Great Depression and steps Franklin Roosevelt to end it. An excellent source due to its thorough analysis and detail.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: The End of Optimism? The Great Depression in Europe
Questions about democratic institutions arose in Europe as the watched the economic crisis in the United States. The conditions in Europe during the Depression era, several photos, animations, and reports, suggested assignments, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: 1920s, the Great Depression, & World War Ii
AP U.S. History learning module on 20th Century eras and events including the 1920s, Great Depression, and World War II. Comprehensive multi-media lesson materials.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Great Depression 1929 1932: President Hoover's Response
Examines how Herbert Hubert responded to the crisis of the Great Depression and his personal belief system that caused him to respond that way. Also looks at how governments at other levels addressed the Great Depression, and why most...
Digital History
Digital History: The Great Depression in Global Perspective
This article gives a great overview of the effects of the Great Depression all over the world. Find the four main responses of various countries to the depression, and see how some of these responses brought about World War II.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: The Great Depression: 1930s and the Roosevelt Administration
The New Deal Network is devoted to students and teachers researching the Great Depression and the New Deal. Features include an extensive database of photographs, political cartoons, texts and a New Deal Network Classroom that has lesson...
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