HISTORY 193—The 1930s
Spring, 2012
HISTORICAL RESOURCES
1. General web sites
a. http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html An enormous web site-start here for every project
b. http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm The New Deal Network--fabulous site
c. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html Great general site with lots of links
d. http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html American cultural history
e. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/2
0th_Century/1930s/ another site with great links
f. http://www.history.com/topics/1930s Great link to videos and photos, with a brief
history of the period
g. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/IT_programs/webquests/elliott/webthegreapa.html Life
in the 30s--a project from North Carolina
h. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief.htm Eyewitness To History site
i. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro01.html The Federal Writers Project
j.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html The Library of Congress site has
160,000 (count ‘em) black and white photos from the 1935-45 period
k. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html The Library of
Congress color photos from 1935-45
l. http://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/essays/biography/3 FDR’s four
presidential campaigns
2. Timelines
a. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html
b. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm#BackFirst100Days The 20s and 30s
3. The Crash of ‘29
a. http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html New York
Times daily coverage
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b. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/crash/ A PBS video that
can be watched on-line, plus other interviews and sources
c. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Bierman.Crash Scholarly and complete article
on the crash
d. http://library.thinkquest.org/26495/stocki/crash%201929.htm The Crash and
Black Friday
4. The Election of 1932
a. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h894.html General article
b. http://www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/1932.html Media coverage
c. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29595#axzz1jGCsT2M1 Democratic
Party platform
d. http://nethelper.com/article/U.S._presidential_election,_1932 Comprehensive site
5. The First 100 Days
a. http://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/02/12/the-first-100-days-franklinb.
c.
d.
e.
f.
roosevelt-pioneered-the-100-day-concept General article
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/museum/pdfs/actionguide.pdf “Action and action
now”--huge site of print and images from FDR Library
http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/fdr/section8.rhtml another short overview
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/newdeal/hundred_days.html Great site with
videos and links
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=First+100+Days+%26+FDR&qpvt=First+100+Da
ys+%26+FDR&FORM=IGRE#x0y2100 Images of the 100 Days
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/diditwork.pdf Did the 100 days actually
work?
6. The First New Deal
7. The Second New Deal
a. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr08.html Library of Congress site on the WPA
b. http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/exhome.html WPA site Voices from the Thirties—
“Life Histories”
8. The Third New Deal
9. Opponents of The New Deal
10. Social Movements of the 1930s
a. Workers movements
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i. Sharon Smith. The 1930s: Turning Point for US Labor
http://isreview.org/issues/25/The_1930s.shtml
ii. http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=788_0_6_0 Farm Labor in the
1930s
b. Farmers movements
i. Farming in the 1930s
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
c. Women’s Movements
i. http://www.workers.org/2008/us/womens_history_month_0403/
d. Internal migrations
i.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html Voices From the Dust
Bowl
e. Civil rights
i. http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/3090/04SP3090-Briggs.htm
Race relations in the American south in the 1930s
ii.
11. Foreign Issues
a. http://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/Neutrality_acts Neutrality Acts
b. http://astro.temple.edu/~rimmerma/nye_commission_report.htm Report of the
Nye Commission (1936)
c. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Committee The Nye Commission
d.
12. Popular culture
a. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/radiofr.html a catalogue of different
media links
b. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson079.shtml Postage stamps
celebrating the 1930s
c. http://www.isd381.k12.mn.us/technology/Webquest/Mockingbird.htm Growing up
in the 1930s: a discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
d. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301073.html Music of the 1930s
e.
13. Book list (even though Amazon is not a great employer)
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=%201930s%20&tag=kansasheritag20&index=books&link_code=qs
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14. Are the 1930s like 2012?
a. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/01/us-economy-dysfunctionidUSTRE80007M20120101
b. http://newamericamedia.org/2011/12/recession-or-depression----are-we-reallybetter-off-than-in-the-1930s.php Are we really better off now than in the 1930s?
c. http://100days.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/how-fdr-made-the-presidency-matter/
Comparing the 100 Days of FDR and Obama, with many comments
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