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1930s Resources
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Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Kansas
Life in the 1930s
William Quantrill's Raid on Olathe, Kansas
| Dust Bowl
1930s Dust Bowl “Driest Summers in the Midwest Were in the 1930s,” USA Today (weather focus) Guthrie, Woody. Blowin’ Down This Road. Guthrie, Woody. Dust Bowl Blues. Guthrie, Woody. Dust Can’t Kill Me. Guthrie, Woody. Dust Pneumonia Blues. Guthrie, Woody. Dusty Old Dust. Guthrie, Woody. The Great Dust Storm. Guthrie, Woody. Talking Dust Bowl Blues. Low, Ann Marie. Dust Bowl Diary. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Nelson, Lynn. Living with Dust. Riney-Kehrberg. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Drepression in Southwestern Kansas. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994. Surviving the Dust Bowl Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: a First-hand Account from Kansas. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986. Tice, D. J. “Dust Bowl Sisters,” Pioneer Press. 7 December 1997. Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonking Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941. West, James. “The 1930s Dust Bowl,” USA Today. 23 November 1999. Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: the Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. |
| The Great Depression
The 1930s. (America’s Decades). San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Allsop, Kenneth. Hard Travelin’: the Hobo and His History. New York: New American Library, 1967. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FAS-OWI, 1935-1945 Depression News: the 1930s Elder, Glen H. Children of the Great Depression. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Fisher, Jim. “Hobo Jungle Dinners a Blessing to Many,” Kansas City Star. The Great Depression. The History Channel. Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Holderby, Edward. “We Didn’t ‘Survive’ the Depression: We Were Living!” Countryside and Small Stock Journal. May/June 1995, page 74. A Kernel More: Suitcase Farmers – Government Farm Policy McElvaine, Robert S. “Fear Itself: Depression Life,” The Great Depression: America 1929-1941. New York: Times Books, 1993. New Deal Network Our Glorious Century. Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest, 1994. Press, Petra. The 1930s (A Cultural History of the United States: Through the Decades). San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999. Riding the Rails Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon, 1970. “The Depths of Depression,” Today in History July 8. Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. New York: Penguin, 1993. ‘We Had Everything but Money’. Greendale, WI: Reiman Publications, 1992. Wiebe, Mark. “America’s Century: How We Changed – Struggle of the ‘30s Spawns Federal Aid,” Kansas City Star. 10 October 1999. Winslow, Susan. Brother Can You Spare a Dime? New York: Paddington, 1976. |
| Kansas
Kenny, Janette. Kansas, Land of Diverse Climate. Suite101.com: 19 October 2001. Stafford, Susan. “Tornado,” Voices. Spring 1998. Life in the 1930's
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