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20th Century: 1930-1939 Decade
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Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President, 1929-1933
- Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the
Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer,
administrator, and humanitarian.
- More Information On
Herbert Hoover
- Thirty-First President, 1929-1933.
- 1933
- A
big year for America, is documented here! A list of people, places and
evenets that were big news for both 1933 and the entire decade and beyond!
- New Deal Network
- 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.
- FDR Cartoon Collection
- This site contains political cartoons from the presidency of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. This preservation project is a cooperative venture of the
AP Computer Math class and the AP United States History classes at
Niskayuna High School.
- The
Great Depression
- A project on the Hungry Decade of Change, by Class 11m, Grey Point
Mini School (Canada). "The 1930s were times of great depression resulting
in sweeping changes. Some people starved trying to find work, while
others did all they could to just hang on a little longer. All across
North America, tough times were had by all. This project which is still
under development focuses on the city of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It will
give you a taste of the urban life in the city, as well as a view in to
the lives of those who lived in the 1930s."
- The
Great Depression: Its Causes and Cures
- "...The Great Depression serves as a natural debating point that
"justifies" or "refutes" various economic policies. Unfortunately, the
Great Depression and the New Deal are complex topics that are open to
many interpretations...[the author has] compiled a list of hard
statistics and dates that should dispel some of the more unwarranted
historical revisionism."
- The Federal Writers' Project
- "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 them wrote about them.
- Social Security
History
- Exceptionally well presented collection of information on the history
of the Social Security program and Social Security Administration. A mix
of general-interest material and items that may appeal primarily to
scholars. Graphics and photos abound, and there are sound and video
clips.
- "Screwball
Comedies
- 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.
- Woody Guthrie
- A popular folk singer and writer of the Thirties and Forties who had
a major influence on American life, including Sixties rock music.
Wrote: "This Land Is Your Land."
- Pulp Fiction
Central
- A colorful type of popular fiction emerged in the first part of the
20th Century, pulp fiction. This site offers a braod collection of links
to many examples of this type of popular literature.
- Voices
from the Thirties
- These life histories were 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. See also: Voices from the
Thirties: An Introduction to the WPA Life Histories Collection
This Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing
the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words
in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form
from narrative to dialogue to report to case history.
- The Southern Tenant
Farmers Union
- The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was formed in Eastern Arkansas in
the summer of 1934 in the face of severe economic problems. Its status as
a bi-racial union, gave it leverage against the planters, while at the
same time increased membership.
- The Klan Rides
Again
- Report on the Ku Klux Klan: "Making the Invisible Empire Visible;
The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s".
- A Hundred
Years of terror
- A special report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan, by the
Southern poverty Law Center. Covers from the late 1800s to the
mid-1900s.
- The
Scottsboro Trials
- A real trial of a group of African_American men, which is often
pointed to as an example of injustice. It is also thought to be the model
for the trial scene in "To Kill A Mockingbird".
- Interviews:
Growing Up In The South Of The 1930s
- Like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, the three women in this
interview grew up in the deep South of the 1930s. All three were members
of what could be described as prominent southern families.
- Interview:
Growing Up Black In The 1930s In Alabama
- Mrs. Peacolia Barge, born in 1923, lived as a small child in an area
called McCulley's Quarters and grew up in Bessemer just outside
Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Barge completed her college degree after her
marriage and then began a long career in teaching. Her grandparents were
slaves in Alabama, and her three children are college-educated,
professional men and women.
- Color Photographs
From 1938-1944
- 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.
- California
Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Multicultural collection that includes sound recordings, still
photos, drawings and written documents from a variety of European ethnic
and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.
Many of them refer to other parts of the U.S., so are not limited to
California. Includes an excellent introduction, The
Ethnographic Experience: Sidney Robertson Cowell in Northern
California, which explains how the music was collected, and also
tells about the life and times of the collectors.
- Architecture and
Interior Design for 20th Century America (1935-1955)
- 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.
- Creative Americans:
Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
- 1,400 Portraits of literary figures, artists, and celebrities; scenic
views, mostly in the Northeast. Includes African Americans, celebrities
and prominent individuals, scenic views. Consists of 1,395 photographs
taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932
and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of
celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance. A much
smaller portion of the collection is an assortment of American landscapes.
- Washington
as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
- Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak
collection(about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture
and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s,
and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential,
and government buildings, as well as street scenes and
views of neighborhoods. A number of Washington events and activities,
such as the 1932 Bonus Army encampment, the 1933 World Series, and World
War II preparedness campaigns, are also depicted. Includes a special
sresentation: Discovering
Theodor Horydczak's Washington.
- Anne Frank, Her
Life and Times
- Includes the following sections: Anne's Stroy, The Holocaust, The
Diary, The Annex. "Over one million children under the age of sixteen
died in the Holocaust. Anne Frank was one of them."
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