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1930's Timeline - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html Yearly table of major events in America during the Great Depression and New Deal.

America from the Great Depression to World War II - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html Records of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection, showing rural life and the negative impact.

Bibliography for Dust Bowl and Migrant Workers - http://www.weedpatchcamp.com/Other htms/bibliogr.htm List of articles, books, films and other resources on American migrant farm workers during the Depression.

Great Myths of the Great Depression - http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=4013 Critique of some established views about the Great Depression of 1929-1941 written by the economist Lawrence W. Reed.

How the City of London Created the Great Depression - http://www.radix.net/~tarpley/29crash.htm Argues that the Great Depression was caused by the Bank of England, the British government and the City of London.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook41.html The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.

Living New Deal Project - http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/ Information about Depression era public works projects in California, including photographs and reproductions of documents. User input is solicited.

Main Causes of the Great Depression - http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/ A short paper on the origins of the Great Depression. Discusses economic problems and policies that led to the American economic collapse in the 1930s. Includes bibliography.

New Deal Art During the Great Depression - http://www.wpamurals.com/ Information and photos of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, and California. Includes biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, and other odd bits of information.

New Deal Network - http://newdeal.feri.org/ Educational site focused on the programs of FDR's New Deal. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

Off to See the Wizard - http://ttokarnak.home.att.net/Depression.html Essay which claims the U.S. Supreme Court seized control of the U.S. economy in the 1890s and caused the Great Depression through its mismanagement.

Riding the Rails - http://www.erroluys.com/frontpage.htm Book review of author Errol Lincoln Uys, including a collection of letters from 1930s train-hopping hobos.

Stock Market Crash - http://www.vanenschot.com/finance/stockmarketcrash.html A comparison of the stock market crash of 1929 to crashes in 1987 and 2000.

Stock Market Crash of 1929 - http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm Information about the stock market crash and how it lead to the Great Depression. Includes chart, glossary and links.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace - http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace The writing by John Maynard Keynes that attacked the effects of Versailles Settlement for its effects on Germany and probably contributed to a lack of resistance when Hitlerism took over Germany.

The Gold Standard and the Great Depression - http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=686 An article by Lawrence Reed of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, arguing that the gold standard did not cause the Great Depression.

The Great Crash and the Great Slump - http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html A study of the economics of the Great Depression by J. Bradford De Long of University of California at Berkeley.

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