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

Comic Books

 

Empire State Building

     

 

 

 

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

                                http://www.edentaylor.com/Thirties.html

                                American History - 1930-1939  click on link 'Fashion & Fads"

                                 1930's fads

                                Women's Fashions

 

 

Stock Market Crash

 

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

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

                                http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html

                                http://www.few.eur.nl/few/people/smant/m-economics/crash1929.htm

                                Five Causes of the Great Depression

 

Ku Klux Klan

 

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

                                http://www2.worldbook.com/wc/popuppath=features/aajourney_new&page=html/aa_3_kkk.shtml&direct=yes

                                           http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/kukluxklankkk/a/kukluxklan.htm

                                           http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=46315

                                The Ku Klux Klan in Nebraska in the 1930s

 

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

                                Lucky Luciano          http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/luciano.html

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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

                                http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2025680-h&templatename=/article/article.html

                                http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fdroosevelt.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

                                                 http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scottsboro/index.html

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

 

The Dust Bowl & Okies

 

                                The American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl Timeline

                                The Dust Bowl

                                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

 

                                Examples of Jim Crow Laws

                                Jump, Jim Crow, or Did Emancipation Make Any Difference

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

                                Jim Crow Laws

                                The History of Jim Crow


 

New Deal Programs

 

                                New Deal Programs

                                Successes and failures of Roosevelt's New Deal programs

                                Social Security Under the New Deal

                                New Deal Cultural Programs

 

John Steinbeck

                               

                                Welcome to the National Steinbeck Center

                                Chronology

                                Steinbeck Biography

                                    

Riding the Rails

                           

                                The American Experience Riding the Rails The Film & More

                                Hobo Signs & Symbols

                                Hobo Symbols

                                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

                           

Radio

 

                                Having Fun – Radio During the Depression

                                American History - 1930-1939  click on link for radio

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

                                A Godlike Presence The Impact of Radio on the 1920s and 1930s Scroll down to Depression

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

Movies

 

                                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

 

                                SLANG in the Great Depression

                                Slang words

 

Lindberg Kidnapping

 

                                Crime of the Century

                                Lindbergh Kidnapping

                                The Case

 

The Hindenburg

 

                                Actual Newsreel Footage ( takes a while to load)

                                Actual radio broadcast

                                Wikipedia Article- Excellent

                                The Mystery of the Hindenburg Disaster

 

Education

                               

                                What School Days Were Like in Depression Rural America

                                School Programs Bring Rural Communities Together in the 1930s

                                American History - 1930-1939  click on link for education

                                Depression Education

Music

 

                               American History - 1930-1939 click on link for music

                               Songs of the Great Depression

                               Manufacturing Memories

                               Scroll down to section on Swing Music

                               Big Band Sound

                             

Mental Retardation

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

                                http://www.thearc.org/info-mr.html

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

 

Migrant Workers

                               

                                Migrant Experience

                                Farm life and the Dust Bowl

 

Amelia Earhart

 

                               Official Biography Website

                               Her Last Flight

                               Amelia Earhart Biography and Much More     From Answers.com

                               Amelia Earhart

 

 

Prohibition

 

                                Prohibition of Alcohol during the Great Depression

                                Prohibition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                                Prohibition in the 30's

 

War of the Worlds

 

                              1938 'War of the Worlds'

                              War of the Worlds   Scroll down to link on 'War of the Worlds'

                              A Gullible Nation War of the Worlds Revisited

 

Harper Lee

 

                               Harper Lee Biography

                               Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                               Harper Lee Definition and Much More From Answers.com

Monopoly Game

                               

                            History of Monopoly Game

                               The 30s, The Depression, and Darrow

                               Hasbro

                            NPR Monopoly, Present at the Creation

                            Monopoly History - Invention of Monopoly

                            The History of Toys and Games

                       

Hoovervilles

 

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

                 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depress/hoovers.html

                            http://www.answers.com/hoovervilles

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

 

1936 Olympics

 

                                    http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=1936+Summer+Olympics&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&linktext=%3CSPAN%20class%3Dhl0%3E1936%3C%2FSPAN%3E%20Summer%20%3CSPAN%20class%3Dhl1%3EOlympics%3C%2FSPAN%3E

 

                                    http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=1936+Winter+Olympics&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&linktext=%3CSPAN%20class%3Dhl0%3E1936%3C%2FSPAN%3E%20Winter%20%3CSPAN%20class%3Dhl1%3EOlympics%3C%2FSPAN%3E

 

                                    http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zch002.htm

 

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

 

Seabuscuit

                                    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 Gehig

 

                                                              http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/gehrig_lou.htm

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

http://www.lougehrig.com/home.php

 

 

Comic Books

 

Just use the part on the 1930's-  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8580/frames.html

                        timeline       http://www.cbldf.org/timeline/index.shtml

Scroll down to section on 1930's  http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/

 

Empire State Building

 

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

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

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

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

 

Lindberg Kidnapping