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The Great Depression

Links to [|photo gallery] of Depression era images (Digital Docs in a Box)

[|Grolier Online Passport Feature: The Great Depression] (timeline, games, video, and images)

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President Roosevelt kept the nation updated through his Fireside Chats. media type="custom" key="14981760"

[|Soup kitchens and bread lines] (photographs from the History Channel)

Dust Storms Strike America media type="custom" key="8616720"

[|Watch The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl] to learn about the effects of the natural disaster that ravished the Great Plains during the 1930s.

[|Map of the Dust Bowl]

[|President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat on Dust Bowl]

The American Experience [|Eyewitness Account Photo Gallery]

President Roosevelt looked to photographers to help document the Dust Bowl disaster. As a result, a form of media -- photojournalism -- was created. Photographers like Dorothea Lange worked to inform the nation of the difficulties many Americans faced and inspired the country to bring about change. [|Documenting America: Photographers on Assignment]
 * Dust Bowl photographers**
 * [|Dorothea Lange]

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[|Letters from boxcar boys and girls of the Great Depression]

New York Times feature : [|Readers record stories of Great Depression]
 * [|June Hamer - Interviewed by her 13-year old grandson]

Is this modern-day Great Depression? New York Times slide show - [|Instead of a Home, a Motel Room]

President Obama's Weekly Address The President reports on a busy week of progress in helping restore the economy, providing assistance to the unemployed, and building a strong and secure economic foundation for the future. media type="custom" key="8634924"