depressions

Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother and her children.

In the summer of 1934, Kit visits her aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and finds herself investigating who is sabotaging a folklore researcher.

Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else.".

In 1932, during the Depression in Ohio, thirteen-year-old Rudy, determined to help his family weather the hard times, hops a train going west to California and experiences the hobo life.

Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of a part of the Great Plains, causing great hardship to farmers.

Describes the events leading to the October 29, 1929, stock market crash resulting in a financial loss to thousands of investors and ushering in the Great Depression.

Features primary source material from speeches, letters, and diaries, as well as first-hand experiences of those who were a part of the Great Depression, and describes the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment, bread line, World War Two, and more.

In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.

Provides information about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s which occurred when the U.S. was stricken by a drought that caused devastating dust storms, primarily in the middle of the country. Includes primary source quotes, comments, and photographs.