History: The Great Depression

includes text, primary source documents, timeline, music, images

Facts on File article

Facts on File article

Free ebook including primary sources from the Library of Congress.

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of selections... documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.

The collection as a whole consists of approximately 18 hours of audio recordings (436 titles on 122 recording discs), 28 graphic images (prints and negatives), and 1.5 linear feet of print materials including administrative correspondence, field notes, recording logs, song text transcriptions, dust jackets from the recording discs with handwritten notes, news clippings, publications, and ephemera. This online presentation provides access to a selection of items from this collection including 371 audio titles, 23 graphic images, a sampling of the dust jackets, and all the print material in the collection.

primary sources from Library of Congress; photographs, audio

Facts on File article

primary documents from the Library of Congress; photographs, audio, documents

site covers many programs and includes articles that are primary documents and letters from the field; among topics covered are hot school lunches, rural electrification program, college and high school aid program, work relief, "the negro and relief," art becomes public work, old age pensions, civilian conservation corp, minimum wage, and more.

8 slideshows featuring original photographs of WPA projects in Kentucky; These images document the accomplishments of the WPA within the state of Kentucky: the construction of schools, hospitals, courthouses, libraries, and municipal buildings. Many of these photographs show people enrolled in various WPA programs: pack-horse librarians, writers, musicians, teachers, artists, doctors, nurses, and women’s training centers.

includes photographs, and role of blacks in New Deal Coalition