1930s WEBQUEST
TOPICS
Adolph Hitler
African Americans,
1930s
Asian Americans,
1930s
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
Rise of Adolph Hitler:
http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144
Issues of Race in the 1930s:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/NewYorker/Race.html
http://www.cetel.org/res.html
Bonnie and Clyde
FBI document (primary source):
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde
Cole Porter
Cole Wide Web: Cole Porter Biography written by J.X. Bell:
http://www.coleporter.org/bio.html
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2008/january/2a.html
Comedy in the 1930s
Duke Ellington
(Use this to get started. It’s just an annotated film festival listing, but it may be helpful.)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/audio_archive/radio/radio.html (radio)
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/660_reg.html (Fred Allen)
From PBS: http://pbskids.org/jazz/nowthen/duke.html
Humanities – information and pictures
http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl
Dustbowl
Voices From the Dust Bowl:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Eleanor Roosevelt
Empire State
Building
Franklin Roosevelt
E. Roosevelt and Human Rights: http://www.udhr.org/history/Biographies/bioer.htm
PBS :
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html
Discusses incident from ‘40s but has good detail about the building’s structure:
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0311.shtml
IPL, a page of great links:
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/fdroosevelt.html
Fireside Chats:
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html
Gangsters & the FBI
http://www.knowitall.org/sandlapper/Summer06/PDF/GangBusters.pdf
NPR:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/grapesofwrath/
(The multimedia links are better viewed from home. Many good links.)
Grapes of Wrath
BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7992942.stm
Rethinking the Politics of The Grapes of Wrath:
http://clogic.eserver.org/2002/cunningham.html
Times Online:
http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster
Hindenburg Disaster
ABC Science:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/02/26/1052864.htm
Hispanic Americans,
1930s
Issues of Race in the 1930s:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/NewYorker/Race.html
Labor in the 1930s:
http://newdeal.feri.org/laborbib/subject.htm (Click on Mexican-Americans.)
Social Security: http://www.ssa.gov/history/hlong1.html
(Be sure to click on the 3 links at the bottom of the page. Many good quotes.)
Huey Long
J. Edgar Hoover
(FBI)
John Dillinger
Lindberg’s
Kidnapping Story
Mary McLeod
Bethune
Mickey Mouse
US Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm
FBI Directors
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/hoover.htm
Newseum:
http://www.newseum.org/exhibits_th/fbi_feat/index.aspx?item=hoover_index&style=c
FBI:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/july08/dillinger_072208.html
TruTV:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/lindbergh/trial_6.html
http://www.usca.edu/aasc/bethune.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/bethune-mary.cfm
Steamboat Willie on MoMA:
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89284
From FilmSound:
http://filmsound.org/animation/steamboatwilly/
From Thinkquest:
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312513/evolution.html
Native Americans,
1930s
Indian Reorganization Act
http://studentorgs.umf.maine.edu/~aio/historian/vol1iss1/indianact_historoessay.pdf
Digital History:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=483
New Deal
Labor in the 1930s:
http://newdeal.feri.org/laborbib/subject.htm
Radio
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/communication/lewis.html
Social Security (Past
and Present)
From The CPA Journal:
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2006/506/infocus/p20.htm
History of SSA:
http://www.ssa.gov/history/
Social Security Act:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1609.html
Stock Market Crash
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Bierman.Crash
From NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html
Timelines
America in the 1930s:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html
1930s Cultural Timeline:
http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/trevey/30s-timeline.html
http://www.544foundation.org/Class%20Pages/1930s/1930s.html
War of the Worlds
http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/Radio/
Wizard of Oz
Qwipster’s Movie Reviews:
http://www.qwipster.net/wizardofoz.htm
http://www.filmsite.org/wiza.html