Dust Bowl

Historical Investigation: How do we explain...?

1. Memoir

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/sfeature/eyewitness.html

2. Map

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/maps/index.html

3. Photograph

http://newdeal.feri.org/timeline/1934a.htm

4. Postcards. Be sure to read the backs of the postcards.

http://www.kancoll.org/graphics/pauldale/

5. Songs Lyrics

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/dbblues.html

6. Song Lyrics

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/disaster.html

7. Photographs

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/drobish/@Generic__BookTextView/146;hf=0;cs=default;ts=default#X

On left hand menu, click on digital menu and pictures will load.

8. Diary

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/dust/low.html

9. Broadside

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/afc/afcts/images/sb001/0021.jpg

10. Letter

http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/fm1137.htm

11. Photographs

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html

12. Congressional testimony

http://newdeal.feri.org/tolan/tol04.htm

13. Song Lyrics

http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/refugee.html

14. Newspaper article

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=afcts&fileName=nyt001/nyt001.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?toddbib:3:./temp/~ammem_0lkL::

15. Oral Histories

http://www.lib.csub.edu/special/interviews.html

16. Photographs

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/dust1.html

17. Photographs

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html