Student Websites

This site provides images and first-person interviews of the events that took place on Black Tuesday. Students will have an opportunity to see and listen to people who lived through a dust storm, creating a better understanding of what it was like during the Dust Bowl.

The Library of Congress website provides students with actual images showing Americans and life during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Students can see thousands of images that represent what was happening in our country during the late 1920s and 1930s.

This website provides students with a time line of the events during the Dust Bowl. The time line is actually part of a PBS series on Surviving the Dust Bowl. This site summarizes the series and gives a great overview of the major events of the Dust Bowl.

This website allows students to read transcripts of several primary-source interviews. The interviews chronicle the stories of people who grew up during the Dust Bowl. There is also a link on the page to the Kansas Historical Society and their information about the Dust Bowl.

This website provides students with information about the life of FDR and his role as president. It also has important links to the Roosevelt library and to the life of Eleanor Roosevelt.

This site takes students through a series of online activities and background information from the Library of Congress to help students learn more about the Great Depression.