America's Great Depression on the Web
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External Links:
- African Americans and the American Labor Movement essay (no photos) by James Gilbert Cassedy from Prologue 1997
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, 1935-1945 has only a few digital images available online of the 55,000 indexed items
- Ben Shahn from Harvard
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 from American Memory
- CCC in Mount Rainier National Park essay and pictures
- Documentary Classics: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
- Dorothea Lange Photos from Freedom Voices
- Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-kill and Arthurdale Heritage and The National First Ladies' Library
- Famous Trials by Doug Linder includes Scottsboro 1933, Lindbergh 1935
- Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection from LC
- Fleischer Bros. Popeye Cartoons page
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial from NPS and article on Robert Graham
- FSA Resources from Bill Barrett has links to the photos of Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott
- Homecoming Transcript from California Newsreel
- Hoover Library
- New Deal Network
- Official Bracero Agreement of August 4, 1942
- Roy Stryker in the Bridging the Urban Landscape exhibit from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh that has 600 historical photographs and images
- Russell Lee Collection from Southwest Texas State University
- Scottsboro; An American Tragedy documentary 2000 film from American Experience by PBS
- Superhero Comic Books History from Jamie Coville tells the history of the comic book that first appeared in 1933. The Depression-era superheroes were the Shadow (1930 radio character, 1931 magazine, 1937 radio series and film, 1940 comic book), the Phantom (1936 was the first costumed superhero in a comic book), Superman (invented 1933, comic book June 1938), Batman (May 1939 comic book), the Shield (Jan. 1940 the first patriotic American comic book hero), Wonder Woman and Captain American (1941 comic books).
- This Land is Your Land: Rural Music and the Depression and Walker Evans from University of Virginia
- United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry1825-1998 S. Doc. 105-24, GPO 1999
- Universal Peace Mission of Father Divine
- Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
revised 3/27/03 by Schoenherr