The Great Depression and the 1930s 

• About: The Great Depression
  Overview and links to related articles on About.com.
• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
  "The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced."
• America in the 1930s
  Information and primary source files pertaining to the movies, pictures, people, magazines, radio, and other aspects of the 1930s. From the American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia.
• American Cultural History, 1930-1939
  A web guide to the 1930s from the Twentieth Century Decades project.
• American Experience: Riding the Rails
  "At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million teenagers were living on the road in America, many criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight trains. This film tells the story of ten of these teenage hobos -- from the reasons they left home to what they experienced -- all within the context of depression-era America."
• American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
  "The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death."
• Digital History Project: the 1930s
  Chapters from the Digital History online textbook.
• The Dust Bowl
  A detailed article from EH.Net Encyclopedia.
• Great Depression
  An article from The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
• The Great Depression
  The history and art of the Depression era and Dust Bowl.
• The Great Depression
  Article, timeline, people, statistics, and more.
• The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940s
  Overview by a teacher of U.S. history.
• The New Deal Network
  "A database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period). Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously accessible only to scholars."
• New Deal Network
  "A research and teaching resource on the World Wide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal." Includes extensive document and photo library, and various special features relating to the period.
• An Overview of the Great Depression
  Lengthy article from the EH.Net Economic History Encyclopedia.
• Voices from the Dust Bowl
  "An online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941."

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