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- 1930s Great Depression Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum - Stories of Michigan during the Great Depression: Labor unions and the Flint sit-down strike, Paul Honore's Natural Resources Mural, bungalows, radio, lighthouses and the Great Lakes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the Civilian Conservatin Corps in Michigan.
www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
- A New Deal for the Arts - The federal program employing artists as part of the New Deal.
www.nara.gov/exhall/newdeal/newdeal.html
- Americas Great Depression - An overview of Americas Great Depression along with a timeline, links, books and other information.
www.amatecon.com/greatdepression.html
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression - The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook41.html
- Main Causes of the Great Depression - A short paper on the origins of the Great Depression. Discusses economic problems and policies that led to the American economic collapse in the 1930s. Includes bibliography.
www.escape.com/~paulg53/politics/great_depression.shtml
- New Deal Network: A Guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s - Educational site focused on the programs of FDR's New Deal. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.
newdeal.feri.org
- New Deal/WPA Art History - Information and photos of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, and California. Includes biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, and other odd bits of information.
www.wpamurals.com
- Of Turnips and Teas and Threshing Bees - Personal experience account of the Depression years.
www.vernathomthaxter.com
- Off to See the Wizard - Essay which claims the U.S. Supreme Court seized control of the U.S. economy in the 1890s and caused the Great Depression through its mismanagement.
ttokarnak.home.att.net/Depression.html
- Sliding into the Great Depression - A study of the economics of the Great Depression by J. Bradford De Long of University of California at Berkeley.
econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
- The Crash of 1929 - Argues that the Great Depression was caused by the Bank of England, the British government and the City of London.
www.tarpley.net/29crash.htm
- The Depression Papers of Herbert Hoover - Read the collection of Herbert Hoover's official papers and public statements that relate to his economic policy in the Great Depression.
www.geocities.com/mb_williams/hooverpapers
- The Gold Standard and the Great Depression - An article from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, arguing that the Gold Standard did not cause the Great Depression.
www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ATE14
- The Great Depression - Documenting America - Library of Congress records of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection, showing rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
- The World Depression - Academic article on the cause and effect of the Great Depression worldwide.
mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/depression.html
- Where Hope Was Found - Information about the Civilian Conservation Corps and its impact on participants and on public works in Missouri.
www.geocities.com/cccorps
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