America from the
Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html 1600 color photos
and 55,000 black and white photos of American life during this period,
taken by the U.S. Farm Security Administration and
Office of War Information
Collection.
Lesson Ideas for
the Great Depression Gallery:
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/techstuf/depressn/dprsidea.html From the Michigan
Historical Center, this site offers lesson ideas for the study of the Great
Depression. While it offers a Michigan focus, many of the ideas and
resources could prove useful for teachers in other parts of the country.
Internet Research
Activities
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9906/ This page, designed
by Jennifer L. Smedley at the University of Maryland at College Park, offers
information to teachers who may want to focus an
Internet-based research
project around the Great Depression. It includes links on the Great
Depression, as well as a great deal of information
about web searching,
retrieving image files from the web, html, and much more.
American Life Histories:
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html Access the text
of hundreds of life history interviews from the Federal Writer's Project,
searchable by state and other factors. You may need to
download some special
viewers to make full use of the site, but the tremendous amount of information
available makes it well worth the effort.