Primary Source Learning: Great Depression
Primary source sets & activities
- American Memory Timeline: Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945, background information with select primary sources & teaching activities
- American Memory Timeline: Photographing People of the Great Depression
- Dust Bowl Migration includes teacher’s guide
- Dust Bowl Songs & Photographs
- Primary Source Learning: Great Depression & World War II Primary Source Set
- Teaching Now: Determining the Main Idea of a Text
Lesson plans
- American Lives in Two Centuries: What Is an American?
- Dust Bowl Songs & Photographs
- Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
- The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
- The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression
- Great Depression curriculum Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People
- The Great Depression and the Present Day
- Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
- Literature Links: Esperanza Rising
- Migration during the Great Depression: Living History
- New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History
- Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders
- Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved
- Zooming into Documentary Photography
Collection Connections
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI ca. 1935-1945
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI ca. 1935-1945
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA 1936-1943
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940-1941
Primary source collections & background information