U.S.
History: 1921-1939
[Dewey numbers:
973.914-7]
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Yahoo!
U.S. History 1920s
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Yahoo's links to the decade of flappers,
prohibition
and Al Capone, jazz, Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, the
Sacco-Vanzetti and Scopes trials, and the stock market crash of 1929.
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Yahoo!
U.S. History 1930s
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Yahoo's links to the decade of the Great
Depression, the Dust Bowl, Presidents Herbert Hoover
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New Deal, gangsters and the Lindbergh
kidnaping.
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WWW-VL:
History: United States: 1930-1939 - http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html
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A directory of Internet sites including links to topics such as: Research
tools (Bibliography and Documents); History (Getting through the Great Depression, Life during the Great Depression, Surviving the Dust Bowl, The rise of labor, The New Deal, The Civilian Conservation Corps, American culture in the 1930s, Achievements of the era, The New York World's Fair of 1939, Crime and criminals, Average days in the lives of average folks, Average places, Chronological listing of events).
- WWW-VL:
History: United States: 1920-1929 - http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
- A directory of Internet sites including links to topics such as: Research
tools (Bibliography and Internet Gateways, Biography, Organizations, Chronology);
History (General, Crime and Gangsters, Baseball, Music, Cinema, Fashions,
Prohibition, The New Woman, Early Relations with Soviet Russia); and Chronological
(year-by-year from 1920 through 1929).
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Documents
for the study of American History: 1920s - http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html#1920
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Links to a few important documents from the 1920s, including three inaugural
addresses and and an article about a race riot in Tulsa, Okla.
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Calvin
Coolidge - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html
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This site, part of the White House collection on the Presidents, gives
a short biography of Herbert Hoover with a portrait.
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Calvin
Coolidge Web Site - http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/index.html
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This website is maintained "by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation
of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. We intend this site to serve as the primary
resource for information about our thirtieth president. To that end, we
are working with historians, researchers and educators to make available
the best and the latest material on Coolidge, his political ideas, and
his life and times."
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Herbert
Hoover - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html
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This site, part of the White House collection on the Presidents, gives
a short biography of Herbert Hoover with a portrait.
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The
Herbert C. Hoover Presidential Library-Museum - http://hoover.nara.gov/
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This Presidential Library is located in West Branch, Iowa, the birthplace
of Herbert Hoover.
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New
Deal Network - http://newdeal.feri.org/
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Information about Roosevelt's program dealing with the Great Depression.
Includes a very wide variety of resources relating to the 1930s, as affected
by the New Deal. The New Deal Network is an educational web site sponsored
by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning
Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.
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American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
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"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, as many as one out of four Americans
could not find jobs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), put 8,500,000
jobless to work, mostly on projects that required manual labor. Countless
bridges, highways and parks were constructed or repaired." Some workers
were writers who interviewed interesting Americans and wrote about them.
Also on the American Memory site is Voices
from the Thirties, life histories written by the staff of the
Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress
(later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940.
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Screwball
Comedies - http://alum.hampshire.edu/~pswF94/cusp/nostalgia/screw.html
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A style of movie comedy that flourished during the Great Depression and
into the first part of the 1940s decade. Helpful in understanding how Americans
endured the hard times of that era.
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To
Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now - http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/index.html
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"This website [a ThinkQuest project] contains primary source documents,
lesson plans, and student work." It includes links to Historical
Archives. The description says: "The links from this
page are to material from primary source documents which students and teachers
may use to explore the historical and social events of the Great Depression
and the Civil Rights Movement. In addition, there are presently two collections
of QuickTime movies taken from archival film footage. In some cases the
material can be directly downloaded from this site or you will be pointed
to the Library of Congress web site for downloading a particular movie
or image."
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America
from the Great Depression to World War II 1939-1945 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html
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These two collections consist of the color photographs produced by a pair
of government photography units within the Farm Security Administration
(FSA) and the Office of War Information(OWI) between 1939 and 1945. Provided
by the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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Stories
and Recipes from the Great Depression
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This site is a book promo but the text describing the times makes it worthwhile.
Just one page but enough to really set the stage.
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20th
Century American Architecture and Design: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho
and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/
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Over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors
and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings,
homes of notable Americans, and of several U.S. presidents, as well as
color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Many were commissioned
by architects, designers, owners and architectural publications, and document
important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior
design.
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