Videos:
PBS Presentation: The Great Depression (YouTube video)
The Great Depression (History.com)
1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash (YouTube video)
Dust Bowl - A 1950s Documentary (YouTube video)
The Great Depression - FDR and the New Deal (YouTube video)
- A film documentary on the Great Depression, outlining the causes, struggles, and outcomes arising from the depressive era.
The Great Depression (History.com)
- "Discover how one of the darkest economic times in American history helped the nation reinvent itself." The webpage includes the short video on the Great Depression, as well as useful information beneath the video which provide a synopsis on the depressive era.
1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash (YouTube video)
- The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States; a documentary by PBS.
Dust Bowl - A 1950s Documentary (YouTube video)
- This "newsreel" like documentary chronicles the Dustbowl with interviews from people (primary sources) who lived through the "dirty thirties." The images linger well after the film ends. An excellent resource to use when studying the Depression era or the "Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck. The film was created as part of "The Twentieth Century" CBS series in the early 1950s with the renown Walter Cronkrite narrating the "text-film."
The Great Depression - FDR and the New Deal (YouTube video)
- Discusses the impact of FDR's New Deal reforms and programs.
Websites:
Digital History - Great Depression
Roosevelt Institute - The New Deal
The Library of Congress - Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
The Living New Deal: Still Working for America
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (The Bubble Bubble)
- This website uses "new technologies to enhance teaching and research." Digital History provides resources on the Great Depression, they include an overview, textbook, documents, events, people, music, film, images, do history, multimedia, for teachers, links, and quizzes.
Roosevelt Institute - The New Deal
- Includes synopsis on FDR's New Deal reforms and programs and a timeline on the major acts of the New Deal era.
The Library of Congress - Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- This section of the Library of Congress website provides a brief summary of FDR's New Deal; the educational resourcefulness of this website is it's plethora of primary sources form the depressive era.
The Living New Deal: Still Working for America
- A national database of thousands of documents, photographs, and personal stories about public works made possible by the New Deal.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (The Bubble Bubble)
- This website is highly resourceful, included is detailed information about the 1929 stock market crash and numerous links to further resources about the same topic.