Web Sites (1 - 10 of 37): "Great Depression"

We Made Do - Recalling The Great Depression * - this student made site has first hand accounts of the Depression, prices of the era, and some photos. "We Made Do" is an on-going project of the students in Mooresville High School in Mooresville, Indiana. The project's focus is on the 1930's, t...
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New Deal Network - In October, 1996, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI), in collaboration with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Marist College, and IBM, launched the New Deal Network (NDN), a research and teaching resource on the World Wide W...
Source/Host: New Deal Classroom | Reviewer: J. Nicol     .   .

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" The Effects of The New Deal on the Great Depression - Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs offered a way to ease the circumstances in which people found themselves due to the Great Depression. Investigate the circumstances and lives of those who endured this time of distress using their oral histo...
Source/Host: American Memory | Reviewer: J. Nicol     .   .

Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century * - It is straightforward to narrate the slide of the world into the Great Depression. The 1920's saw a stock market boom in the U.S. as the result of general optimism: businessmen and economists believed that the newly-born Federal Reserve would stabilize th...
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Every Picture Tells A Story (1) * - Every Picture Tells A Story (1)
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Immigration/Migration: Today and During the Great Depression - Family stories are very rich; the stuff of literature and film. Edison/Fareira High School students, predominately Caribbean in origin, will make a real contribution to history because few Caribbean voices have become part of the written record. When stud...
Source/Host: American Memory | Reviewer: J. Nicol     .   .

Brother, Can you Spare a Billion: The Story of Jesse H. Jones * - learn about this man who made great contributions to the US during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. From PBS. He shaped a major American city in his own image. He laid the groundwork for the modern Red Cross. In the 1930s, he was one of the most power...
Source/Host: PBS     .   .

1930s Project - 1930s America was a decade of unparalleled contradiction and complexity. Encapsulated loosely on one end by Black Tuesday of the Great Depression and on the other end by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the years between 1929 and 1941 were characterized by...
Reviewer: K. Mortensen     .   .

WPA Life Histories from Alabama * - WPA Life Histories from Alabama 33 titles List Search All WPA Life Histories These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Alabama collected during the Great Depression. The WPA project categories include: INDUSTRY, COMMERCE AND LABOR and AFRO...
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Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression - By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing evidence of the col...
Source/Host: American Memory | Reviewer: J. Nicol     .   .