depressions

A selection of sources and interpretations designed to help students understand the factors leading up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and discover how the crash affected life in America.

Chronicles the events which shaped world history from 1913 to 1942, discussing how each event affected world politics, economy, and culture.

A collection of essays that examine how the Great Depression affected the social, political, and economic atmosphere of the United States.

An illustrated examination of the stock market crash of 1929 that presents background information on the Roaring Twenties and describes the immediate and long-term effects of the crash.

A history of the Depression years in America, from 1929-1941, discussing the period of economic collapse, and considering its impact upon all phases of American civilization, including the family, church, work, education, the arts, morals, and recreation.

Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to describe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.

During the Depression, in the Ozarks of Missouri, thirteen-year-old Thad has adventures selling moonshine and fishing with a rich visitor.

Text and many photos and sidebars describe the events and effects of the Great Depression and the Second World War in America; also includes a time line, a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of Web sites.

Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.