| Links to Selected Websites |
| Fourth Grade: The Great Depression |
| - Topic: Timelines |
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A timeline of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Timeline.htm |
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Basic lines
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html |
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Dust Bowl focus
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/timeline/index.html |
| - Topic: Background Resources |
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Indexed links to various websites on the Great Depression.
http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#20s
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#30s
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Brief essay descriptions of Great Depression topics.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html |
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Focus on the Dust Bowl history.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ |
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Oral Histories from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-38
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
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President Hoover
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_dam/splash.html
http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery06/gallery06.html
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/hoover_and_the_depression/index.html
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President Roosevelt
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/Online14.html
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/gdphotos.html
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Lomax -- Roots Music Recordings from the South
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/lomax/index.html
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Oral History -- Voices from the Dust Bowl – Migrant Workers
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/vdb/index.html
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Oral Histories form the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1940
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/wpa/history.html
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WPA Posters
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/poster/index.html
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FDR’s First Inaugural Address
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/froos1.htm |
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New Deal Network – Documents, art, poetry, music
http://newdeal.feri.org/
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Great Depression Art Gallery
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
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Photos 1935-1945
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsa/index.html
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Color Photos 1939-1945
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/fsac/index.html
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Washington D.C. 1923-1959
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/hor/history.html
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Jazz Age Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
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Sheet Music
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/hasheet/index.html
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Blues and Gospel recordings
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
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Chicago Daily News Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
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| - Topic: Concepts in Economics |
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Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.
http://eh.net/hmit
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Consumer Price Index: 1913 - Present, Bureau of Labor Statistics
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
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Frequently Asked Questions: about CPI, from Bureau and Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm
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Inflation Calculator: you choose initial year and cost and future year, BLS
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
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Inflation Rates: in U.S. 1666 to 2002, in Britain 1601-2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/inflation/
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Purchasing Power: British Pound, 1264 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/
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Purchasing Power: U.S. dollar, from 1665 to 2002, from Economic History Services
http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/
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Relative Cost: of one unit of unskilled labor, from 1774 to 2002, from EHS
http://eh.net/hmit/unskilledlabor/ |
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What is its Relative Value?: from 1789 to 2002, five ways to make comparisons, from EHS
http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/compare/ |
