Great Depression Research Assign

Great Depression Research Topics

Fads & Fashion of the 30’s	Stock Market Crash	Ku Klux Klan	Gangsters & Organized Crime	Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Scottsboro Trial	The Dust Bowl & Okies	Jim Crow Laws & Race Issues	New Deal Programs	John Steinbeck
Riding the Rails	Farm Life in the 30’s	Radio	Movies	Slang
Lindberg Kidnapping	The Hindenburg	Education	Music	Mental Retardation
Migrant Workers	Amelia Earhart	Prohibition	War of the Worlds	Harper Lee
Monopoly Game	Hoovervilles	1936 Olympics	Seabiscuit	Lou Gerhig
Morphine Addiction	Dust Bowl	Lynchings	Plessy vs. Ferguson	Rabies
Comic Books	Empire State Building	Black Codes	Sharecropping

Fads & Fashion of the 30’s

Men's Fashion http://www.murrayonhawaii.com/nolan/fashionhistory_1930mens.html

Ladies' Fashion http://www.murrayonhawaii.com/nolan/fashionhistory_1930ladies.html

Pictures http://www.marquise.de/en/1900/pics/1930/1930b.shtml

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/30fads.html

Women's Fashions

Stock Market Crash

http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html

Five Causes of the Great Depression

AnswersDot Com http://www.answers.com/Stock%20market%20Crash

Ku Klux Klan

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859145.html

The Ku Klux Klan in Nebraska in the 1930s

Ku Klux Klan in the 20th Century

Gangsters & Organized Crime

Al Capone http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm

http://www.alcaponemuseum.com/

John Dillinger http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/dillinger/dillinger.htm

Bonnie & Clyde http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/clyde/clyde.htm

Machine Gun Kelly http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/kelly/kelly.htm

Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html

Fireside Chats http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html

The Scottsboro Trial

Best site http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

The First Trials http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html#HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20CASE

The Dust Bowl & Okies

The American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl Timeline

The American Experience Surviving The Dust Bowl People & Events The Drought

The American Experience Surviving The Dust Bowl People & Events The Great Depression

Jim Crow Laws & Race Issues

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories PBS

The History of Jim Crow

What was Jim Crow ( excellent site)

New Deal Programs

Social Security Under the New Deal

New Deal Cultural Programs

John Steinbeck

Welcome to the National Steinbeck Center

John Steinbeck Biography

Wikipedia Article on Steinbeck

Riding the Rails

The American Experience Riding the Rails The Film & More

Hitchhiking during the Great Depression

Farm Life in the 30’s

Farm Life during the Great Depression

Drought, Tornados, Blizzards and Floods All in the 1930s

Chores Defined Life on a Farm during the 1930s

Flour Sacks were Material for Clothing in the Depression

Rural Electricity Changes Work on Farms in Depression America

Having Fun – Radio During the Depression

War of World's Broadcast http://www.mercurytheatre.info/history

Having Fun – Movies during the 1930s

Media History Timeline 1930s scroll through the timeline year by year for info on movies

Film History of the 1930s

Daring Films of the 30's

SLANG in the Great Depression

Lindberg Kidnapping

Crime of the Century

The Hindenburg

Actual Newsreel Footage ( takes a while to load)

Wikipedia Article- Excellent

The Mystery of the Hindenburg Disaster

What School Days Were Like in Depression Rural America

School Programs Bring Rural Communities Together in the 1930s

Songs of the Great Depression

Manufacturing Memories

Scroll down to section on Swing Music

Mental Retardation

http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/birth_defect/mental_retardation.html

http://health.yahoo.com/ency/adam/001523/0

Migrant Workers

Migrant Experience

Amelia Earhart

Her Last Flight

Amelia Earhart Biography and Much More From Answers.com

Amelia Earhart

Prohibition

Prohibition of Alcohol during the Great Depression

Prohibition in the 30's

War of the Worlds

1938 'War of the Worlds'

A Gullible Nation War of the Worlds Revisited

Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Monopoly Game

The 30s, The Depression, and Darrow

NPR Monopoly, Present at the Creation

Monopoly History - Invention of Monopoly

Hoovervilles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoovervilles

http://www.answers.com/hoovervilles

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1642.html

1936 Olympics

http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0114524.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/seabiscuit-1?method=8

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/seabiscuit/mammalsevents/e_depression.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0728_030728_seabiscuit_2.html

Lou Gerhrig

http://www.answers.com/topic/lou-gehrig?method=8

Comic Books

Superman

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/superman/culture.html

Empire State Building

Scroll down to history http://ms.essortment.com/historyempires_rymo.htm

Facts & Figures http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/tourism_facts.cfm?CFID=13340839&CFTOKEN=80792410

Answers Dot Com http://www.answers.com/empire%20state%20building

Scroll down to section on 1920-40 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html#b

http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/ACLAText/USLynch.html

http://www.answers.com/dust%20bowl

Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/timeline/index.html

Black Sunday http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX07.html

Map http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/maps/index.html

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answers Dot Com http://www.answers.com/plessy%20vs%20ferguson

http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/USA/PlessyFerguson.html

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/plessy/plessy.html

Answers Dot Com http://www.answers.com/rabies

CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/ques&ans/q&a.htm

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies

Morphine Addiction

Wikipedia on Morphine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine

Bartelby http://www.bartleby.com/65/mo/morphine.html

Thursday's Child http://www.thursdayschild.org/frames_facts.htm

Black Codes

Answers dot Com. http://www.answers.com/black%20codes

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASblackcodes.htm

http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa121900a.htm

http://www.sciway.net/afam/reconstruction/blackcodes.html

Sharecropping

Answers dot com http://www.answers.com/sharecropping

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping_system

Encyclopedia dot com http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/sharecro.asp