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1. America in the 1930s

   Find a timeline for the 1930s along with information on film, newspapers, art, and radio. Audio and video clips from this time period are included.

   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

   
   

2. Brother, Can you Spare a Billion: The Story of Jesse H. Jones

   Learn about Jesse H. Jones, who made great contributions to the U.S. during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. From PBS.

   http://www.pbs.org/jessejones/

   
   

3. By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

   Review hundreds of color posters that were produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

   
   

4. California History Online

   Learn about the state's native people, early explorers, the Gold Rush, the Great Depression, and much more with this neat interactive timeline from the California Historical Society.

   http://www.californiahistory.net/

   
   

5. Depression News - The 1930s

   Learn about current events of the 1930s from this online rag. Be sure to visit kids' stuff for more cool info on the time period.

   http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museu...

   
   

6. FDIC Learning Bank: 1930's

   Timeline describing what happened at U.S. banks during the Great Depression. Includes historical photos.

   http://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/when/1930s.htm...

   
   

7. Great Depression

   Grade 11 student project outlining and describing the desperate decade of the 1930s in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

   http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/canadianhistor...

   
   

8. Great Depression, The

   Read an essay about the 1929 stock market crash and the effect it had on the U.S. economy for the next decade.

   http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch9_p8.htm

   
   

9. Magpie Sings the Great Depression

   Get inside the thoughts of students in '30s New York through writing selections from the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School Literary Magazine, from 1929-1942.

   http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/

   
   

10. NARA: The Great Depression

    Learn about President Hoover's response to one of the worst crises in American economic history. From the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

    http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gal...

    
    

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