AP Photo
Jobless and homeless men wait on a long
line to get a free dinner at New York's
Municipal Lodging House, 1933.
Jobless and homeless men wait on a long
line to get a free dinner at New York's
Municipal Lodging House, 1933.
The Great Depression and the New Deal
In the 1930s, the United States faced its greatest crisis since the Civil War. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed brought an end to the Roaring ’20s. The party was over, and for many Americans, life became a matter of survival.
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Insights for the Great Depression and the New Deal
- Perhaps at no other time in American history did the lives of average Americans change as drastically as they did during the Great Depression. The sites below don’t just focus on the big historical events, but detail the experiences of ordinary Americans as well.
Top Sites for the Great Depression and the New Deal
America in the 1930s was created by the University of Virginia, and uses multimedia to showcase the lives of Americans throughout the decade. There’s a timeline of events, plus a section on the 1930s in film, in print and on radio.
New Deal Network has more than 20,000 photographs, documents, diaries and more that depict life during the Great Depression, and the effects of the New Deal. There’s a section on teaching the New deal in the classroom, a series of articles and an e-mail discussion list for teachers and historians.
The Library of Congress presents “Voices from the Dust Bowl,” a site that documents the lives of migrant workers who moved to southern California during the Midwest Dust Bowl years. You’ll find photos and audio files of songs and interviews with these Americans.
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