Videos
One Minute Economics explains the causes and events behind The Great Depression in under a minute.
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Social Welfare History Project details Roosevelt’s New Deal and how it changed the country.
Iowa’s PBS station explores the Farm Crisis and the devastating effects it had on rural America.
Web Links
This site features real photos from life inside the “hoovervilles,” shantytowns that popped up in the 1920s as a result of The Great Depression.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum details the cultural and political climate of the 1936 Olympics that were held in Nazi Germany, and how those games affected the world.
The Balance provides a detailed history of the Dust Bowl, an environmental disaster that devastated the country, and explains how it could happen again.
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