20th Century History By the Decades
Updated 01/15/04
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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.
- 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.
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The
Great Depression
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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.
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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.
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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
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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".
- 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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