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History: Great Depression 1929-1939

Great Depression

People or agencies

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herbert Hoover

Dust Bowl

Huey Long

Fritz Kuhn

Francis Townsend

John Nance Garner

CCC - Civilian Conservation Corp

WPA - (Workers Progress administration)

Jesse Jones

TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority

REA - Rural Electrical Administration

Interesting items during the Great Depression

Prohibition (1920-1933)

Gangs including Machine Gun Kelly, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Baker (and her sons), John Dillinger,"Baby Face" Nelson, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and Alvin Karpis.

Lindbergh baby kidnapping

Hindenburg Explosion

Bonus March

Amelia Earhart

Planet Pluto discovered

By 1938, nearly 80% of American households own a radio.

Library Databases

Databases

PJC on campus

the main Academic database is ProQuest

Accessing Databases from Off Campus:

  1. Go to Paris Junior College Homepage
  2. Click on Quick Links
  3. Select Library Services
  4. Under Library Links click on Databases (off-campus login)
  5. User name is your student ID number
  6. Password is your birthday (mmddyyyy)

To access the academic databases from home, click here:

DVDs

PJC owns the following DVDs over the era 1930s including the great depression

Dust Bowl

Bonnie & Clyde

O' brother where art thou

of mice and men

Seabiscuit

Grapes of Wrath

The Sting

E-BOOKS

Online Catalog

The catalog has many different resources and materials available to help you.

PJC has physical books on the following subjects concerning the Great Depression - FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt), When the new deal was young, Dancing in the dark, Hoover Administration, Huey Long, Age of the the Great Depression, 1930s, 30's in America encyclopedia set, Grapes of Wrath, Worst hard times, New Deal at home

On Line Catalog

E-BOOKS concerning the Great depression include