Here are our recommended Web sites and other resources for your school assignment on the Great Depression.

• Library of Congress: American Memory
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome
• Library of Congress: Documenting America (images)
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome
• American Cultural History - the Twentieth Century
  www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades

For Grades 7 and up:
• CQResearcher
• eLibrary
• Gale Group
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Student Resource Center Gold
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Grolier Online
• Historical Newspaper Index
• SIRS (choose Knowledge Source)



• For Elementary Grades:
  Gale Group
• Kids Edition - K12
• Kids InfoBits
• Grolier Online
      Look for "Jump to Kids" at the top right of page.

Sample search terms:
• Business, Banking and Economics: Great Depression and Other Economic Recessions
• 20th Century
• Depression, Great
• Decade numbers (i.e. 1920s)
• Great Depression
• Twentieth Century

• Depression, 1929
• Great Depression, America 1929-1941
• Great Depression and the New Deal
• Fashion, History
• Popular Culture, History
• Twentieth Century, miscellanea
• United States, History (enter year of interest)
• United States-Social Conditions