These links to information about the Great Depression in the United States provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• American History 102 Outline and Lecture Notes, University of Wisconsin
  • The Crash and the Great Depression
  • The Great Depression and the New Deal
  • Dr. New Deal or Dr. Win-the-War
• The CCC Museum and Research Center, St. Louis, Missouri
• Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Grayling, Michigan (Michigan Historical Center)
• Detroit News "Review Mirror"
  • The Battle of the Overpass
  • The Diego Rivera Murals
  • Detroit, the City of Champions
  • Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
  • The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes
  • The Killer Heat Wave of 1936
  • How the Great Depression Changed Detroit
• The Great Depression in Ann Arbor (Arts of Citizenship Program, University of Michigan)
• The Great Depression in New York (PBS Kids, Learning Adventures in Citizenship, Episode 6)
• Hard Times, Soft Sell (wNET School lesson plan for grades 9-12))
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, Gallery Six: The Great Depression (National Archives and Records Administration)
• James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps [online] Museum
• Lesson Plans: Voices from the Great Depression (Ward Hill Press)
• New Deal Network (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
• The New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, Gilbert Lake State Park, NY
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY
• Michigan Exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, May 27 to November 1, 1933
• National Archives and Records Administration
  • A New Deal for the Arts
  • Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
• On the Air: Michigan Radio and Television Broadcasting 1920 - 2000 (Click on the 1930s link.)
• Social Security Administration History Page
• State Archives of Michigan holdings (Archival Circulars)
  • Depression-era Agencies
  • Rural Property Inventories
• To Kill a Mockingbird. Lesson plan with a historical perspective. (The Learning Page, Library of Congress)

Updated 11/30/2005

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