Community College of Baltimore County



HISTORY 193—The 1930s

Spring, 2012

HISTORICAL RESOURCES

1. General web sites

a. An enormous web site--start here for every project

b. The New Deal Network--fabulous site

c. Great general site with lots of links

d. American cultural history

e. another site with great links

f. Great link to videos and photos, with a brief history of the period

g. Life in the 30s--a project from North Carolina

h. Eyewitness To History site

i. The Federal Writers Project

j. The Library of Congress site has 160,000 (count ‘em) black and white photos from the 1935-45 period

k. The Library of Congress color photos from 1935-45

l. FDR’s four presidential campaigns

2. Timelines

a.

b. The 20s and 30s

3. The Crash of ‘29

a. New York Times daily coverage

b. A PBS video that can be watched on-line, plus other interviews and sources

c. Scholarly and complete article on the crash

d. The Crash and Black Friday

4. The Election of 1932

a. General article

b. Media coverage

c. Democratic Party platform

d. Comprehensive site

5. The First 100 Days

a. General article

b. “Action and action now”--huge site of print and images from FDR Library

c. another short overview

d. Great site with videos and links

e. Images of the 100 Days

f. Did the 100 days actually work?

6. The First New Deal

7. The Second New Deal

a. Library of Congress site on the WPA

b. 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

i. Sharon Smith. The 1930s: Turning Point for US Labor

ii. Farm Labor in the 1930s

b. Farmers movements

i. Farming in the 1930s

c. Women’s Movements

i.

d. Internal migrations

i. Voices From the Dust Bowl

e. Civil rights

i. Race relations in the American south in the 1930s

ii.

11. Foreign Issues

a. Neutrality Acts

b. Report of the Nye Commission (1936)

c. The Nye Commission

d.

12. Popular culture

a. a catalogue of different media links

b. Postage stamps celebrating the 1930s

c. Growing up in the 1930s: a discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird

d. Music of the 1930s

e.

13. Book list (even though Amazon is not a great employer)

14. Are the 1930s like 2012?

a.

b. Are we really better off now than in the 1930s?

c. Comparing the 100 Days of FDR and Obama, with many comments

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