[Detail] Destitute Pea Pickers in California
Online activities and background information from the Library of Congress to help students learn more about The Great Depression.
- American Treasures: America Eats (Exhibition) View Federal Writer's Project photographs of this 1930s project
- American Treasures: Federal Theater (Exhibition) This WPA project was intended to provide employment for theater professionals during the Great Depression.
- American Treasures: No Work (Exhibition) This 1935 Blanchs Grambs lithograph reflects the rawness of life during the Depression.
- American Treasures: Our Good Earth (Exhibition) John Steuart Curry, along with other American Regionalist artists, presented visions of America that found beauty and dignity in the lives of ordinary citizens.
- American Treasures: The Bonus Army March (Exhibition) World War I veterans marched on the Capitol in June 1932 to request early payment of cash bonuses due to them in 1945.
- American Treasures: The Forgotten People (Exhibition) Explore pages from FSA reports compiled by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor documenting migrant worker conditions in California.
- American Treasures: The Grapes of Wrath (Exhibition) Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel traces one family's exodus from Oklahoma because of the Dust Bowl.
- American Treasures: Tuberculosis Tests (Exhibition) Elizabeth Olds created this lithograph as part of a series of prints about the Roosevelt administration's assistance to the unemployed during the Depression in Omaha.
- Explore the States: Oklahoma Dust Bowl (America's Library) Learn about the Oklahoma dust storms of the 1930s.
- Explore the States: Tennessee (America's Library) Read about the Tennessee Valley Authority - one of the most famous and successful projects begun by the federal government during the Great Depression.
- Jump Back in Time: Depression and WWII (America's Library) Read stories from this period in America's history.
- Jump Back in Time: July 8, 1932 (America's Library) Learn about the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression.
- Meet Amazing Americans: Dorthea Lange (America's Library) Read the life story of this photographer who became famous documenting the lives of migrant workers during the Great Depression.
- Today in History (April 8, 1935) Works Progress Administration (Today in History) Congress approved the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Today in History (July 16, 1936) Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Today in History) Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on this 1941 photojournalism project documenting the life of sharecropper families in Hale County, Alabama.
- Today in History (July 8, 1932) The Depths of Depression (Today in History) On this date, the stock market fell to its lowest point during the Great Depression.
- Today in History (June 16, 1933) A New Deal (Today in History) This date marked the end of the first hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.
