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Boom and Bust
The Roaring Twenties
to the Great Depression

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Resources             
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Helpful Internet Sites

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/maps/index.html

PBS Online.  “Railroad Map.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/index_1024.html

The Museum of Musical Instruments.  “Bound for Glory: The life and times of Woody Guthrie.” 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/tales.html

PBS Online.  “Tales from the Rails.”  Riding the Rails

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/chord.html PBS Online.  “Striking a Chord:  Railroads and their musical heritage.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/obstacles.html PBS Online.  “Added Obstacles.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webtheroarch.html  Web Quest.

 

Dust Bowl

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/dust/intro.html

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/depresn.htm

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-

http://www.lubbock.k12.tx.us/rush/lessons/dustbowl.html

http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/curricula/dorothea_lange/

http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/1999/lessons/teams/08/template.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=300

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/981218Droughts/

Roaring Twenties

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/decor.html

http://alephnull.net/20s/culture.html

http://www.besmark.com/danc4.html

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html

http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/gallery03.html

http://www.vialarp.org/20s/20s_gangland.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/sports/sports.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/gameroom/gameroom.htm

http://www.sportplanet.com/sbb/apfas/20R.HTM

http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/index.shtml

http://www.costumes.org/pages/1920sMisc.htm

http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

http://www.costumes.org/pages/1920sMisc.htm

http://www.vintageblues.com/history2.htm

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1920m.html

http://www.old-time.com/commercials/wheaties.html

http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ENGL/courses/engl208c/1920.htm

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html

http://www.jeannepasero.com/harlem.html

Great Depression Websites/Bibliography 

http://www.yahooligans.com/content/ask_earl/20030411.html

“What was the Great Depression?”  Ask Earl.  2003.

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/
museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html

Michigan Historical Center, Department of History, Art and Libraries. 

The Depression News: The 1930s2003.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/index.html

PBS Online.  “Timeline of the Great Depression.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/tales.html

PBS Online.  “Tales from the Rails.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.californiahistory.net/depres_frame_mainmenu.htm

California Historical Society.  “The Great Depression:  California in the Thirties.” California History On-Line .

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/presidents/
roosevelt_franklind.html

The World Almanac for Kids.  “Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”  2001-2003.

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/index.html

PBS Online.  “Surviving the Dustbowl.”

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Library of Congress.  “America from the Great Depression to World War II.”  The American Memory Project.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/dust/intro.html

Library of Congress.  “The Learning Page.”  The American Memory Project.

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-52530--,00.html

Michigan Historical Center, Department of History, Art and Libraries.  “Then and Now: Prices.”  2001-2003.

http://www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/index_1024.html

The Museum of Musical Instruments.  “Bound for Glory: The life and times of Woody Guthrie.” 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/maps/index.html

PBS Online.  “Railroad Map.”  Riding the Rails.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/chord.html

PBS Online.  “Striking a Chord:  Railroads and their musical heritage.” 

Riding the Rails.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/sfeature/obstacles.html

PBS Online.  “Added Obstacles.”  Riding the Rails.

Glazer, Peter, and Woody Guthrie.  Woody Guthrie’s American Song Study Guide.  Capital Reperatory Theatre.  2001.

Coombs, Karen Mueller.  Children of the Dust Days.  Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 2000.  ISBN: 1-57505-360-8

Rublowsky, John.  After the CrashToronto:  Macmillan Company, 1970.

Meltzer, Milton.  Driven from the Land.  New York:  Benchmark Books, 2000.

Meltzer, Milton.  Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.