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Diaries, Memoirs, Biographies, First-Hand Accounts: Babb, Sanora. On the Dirty Plate Trail. University of Texas Press, 2007. Davidson, James Alfred. Patches on My Britches: Memories of Growing up in the Dust Bowl. 1st Books Library, 1998. Hudson, Lois Phillips. Reapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle. Minnesota Historical Society, 1964. Low, Ann Marie. Dust Bowl Diary. University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Revard, Carter. Winning the Dust Bowl. University of Arizona Press, 2001. Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, ed. Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck. University of Iowa Press, 2005. Rutland, Robert Allen. A Boyhood in the Dust Bowl, 1926-1934. University Press of Colorado, 1995. Terkel, Studs. Hard times : an oral history of the great depression. Turner, Alvin O. ed., Letters From the Dust Bowl. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. Economic Conditions: Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression. The University of New Mexico Press, 1979. Hull, William. The Dirty Thirties: Tales of the Nineteen Thirties During Which Occurred a Great Drought, a Lengthy Depression and the Era Commonly Called the Dust Bowl Years. W.H. Hull, 1989. Hurt, Douglas. Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. Harper & Row, 1963. Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 1979. Wunder, John R., Francis W. Kaye, and Vernon Carstensen, eds., Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience. University Press of Colorado, 1999. Environmental Conditions: Blouet, Brian W. and Frederick C. Luebke. The Great Plains: Environment and Culture. University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Cunfer. Geoff. On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment. Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Lookingbill, Brad. Dust Bowl USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941. The Ohio University Press, 2001. Sears, Paul. Deserts on the March. University of Oklahoma Press, 1935. Sherow, James Earl. A Sense of the American West. An Anthology of Environmental History. University of New Mexico, Press, 1998. Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1993. Historical Geography: Berglund, Lee. Wheat Belt Route: Wichita Northwestern: The Story of the Dust Bowl Railroad. South Platte Press, 1998. Johnson, Vance. Heaven’s Tableland: The Dust Bowl Story. Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947. Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1994. Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1986. Migrant Labor: Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. Oxford University Press, 1993. Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination. University Press of Kansas, 1997. Stein, Walter J. California and the Dust Bowl Migration. Greenwood Press, 1973. Social Conditions: Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Hurt, R. Douglas. The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History. Nelson-Hall, 1981. McElvaine, Robert S. The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents.Oxford University Press, 2000. Yancey, Diane. Life During the Dust Bowl. Lucent Books, 2004. Fiction: Babb, Sanora. Whose Names Are Unknown. University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Johnson, Josephine W. Now in November. Simon and Schuster, 1934. Lanham, Edwin. The Stricklands. Little Brown, 1939. Mick, Lee. Below the Horizon. Author House, 2005. Peery, Janet. What the Thunder Said. St. Martin’s Press, 2007. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Viking Press, 1939. Williams, Jeanne. The Longest Road. St. Martin’s Press, 1993. Wright, Barbara. Plain Language. Touchstone, 2003. Photography: Curtis, James. Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered.Temple University Press, 1989. Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History.Chronicle Books, 2012. Ganzel, Bill. Dust Bowl Descent. University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Lange, Dorothea and Paul S. Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. Chronicle Books, 2013. Rothstein, Arthur. The Depression Years. Dover Publications, 1978. Selected Readings for Younger Audiences Andryszewski, Tricia. The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains. Millbrook Press, 1994. Ages 9-12. Booth, David. The Dust Bowl. Kids Can Press, 1997. Ages 4-8. Christensen, Bonnie. Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.Ages 3-7. Brown, Don. The Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Young Adult Coombs, Karen Mueller. Children of the Dust Days. Carolrhoda Books, 2000. Ages 7 and up. Cooper, Michael L. Dust to Eat. Clarion Books, 2004. Ages 12 and up. Durbin, William. My Name is America: The Journal of C.J. Jackson. Scholastic, 2002. Ages 9-12. Garland, Sherry. Voices of the Dust Bowl. Pelican Publishing Company, 2012. Ages 8 and up. Guthrie, Woody. This Land is Your Land. Little, Brown, 1998. Ages 4 and up. Herr, Melody. Summer of Discovery. University of Nebraska press, 2006. Ages 8 and up. Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. Scholastic, 1997. Ages 10 and up. Isaacs, Sally Senzell. Life in the Dust Bowl. Heinemann, 2002. Ages 7-9. Janke, Katelan. Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935. Scholastic Inc., 2002. Ages 9-12 Lackey, Jennifer. The Biography of Wheat. Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007. Ages 8 and up. Marrin, Albert. Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl. Dutton Children’s Books, 2009. Ages 10 and up. Meltzer, Milton. Driven From the Land: The Story of the Dust Bowl. Cavendish Square Publishing, 2000. Ages 10 and up. Moss, Marissa. Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2001. Ages 8-12. Phelan, Matt. The Storm in the Barn. Candlewick Press, 2009. Ages 10 and up. Raven, Margot Theis and Roger Essley. Angels in the Dust. Troll Communications, 1997. Ages 7 and up. Sandler, Martin W. The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster. Walker & Company, 2009. Ages 10-14. Slade, Arthur. Dust. Wendy Lamb Books, 2003. Ages 11 and up. Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp. Crown, 1992. Ages 8-12. Turner, Ann. Dust for Dinner. Harper Collins, 1997. Ages 4-8. Venezia, Mike. Dorothea Lange. Children’s Press, 2000. |
MoviesAmerican Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl. Produced by Chana Gazit. 1998. Steward/Gazit Productions.
Dirt! The Movie. New Video Group, 2010. Dust Bowl. Directed by Ken Burns. 2012. Florentine Films. Grab a Hunk of Lightening. Directed by Dyanna Taylor. To be released 2014. American Masters/PBS. Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 1940. 20th Century Fox. The Plow That Broke the Plains. Produced by Pare Lorentz. 1936. U.S. Government Short Film. (Available from the FDR Presidential Library: https://archive.org/details/gov.fdr.352.2a.1) Stinging Dust and Forgotten Lives: The Dust Bowl. 2008.Tempestas et Caelum Productions. Available at: http://tcpfilms.com/studio/sdfl/ Symphony of Soil. 2012. When Weather Changed History: Dust Bowl. Produced by Dan Tyrrell. 2008. The Weather Channel. MusicBell, Judy and Nora Guthrie, ed. Woody Guthrie Songs. Ludlow Music, 1994.
Guthrie, Woody. This Land is Your Land. Little, Brown, 1998. Guthrie, Woody, Harold Leventhal, and Marjorie Gurthrie. The Woody Guthrie Songbook. Grosset Dunlap. 1976. LinksInternational Year of Soils
Historical Archives of Project Sponsors:The Oklahoma State University Library’s “Women in the Dust Bowl” online oral history archives of interviews with people who lived through the Dust Bowl. The Mount Holyoke College Library’s collection of the papers of Caroline Henderson, who farmed throughout the Dust Bowl period and wrote many letters, essays, and articles about her experiences. Many of Henderson’s observations are gathered in the book, Letters from the Dust Bowl, edited by Alvin O. Turner. Dust Bowl History http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/ -- Official site for Ken Burns’ film The Dust Bowl. Site includes interactive, videos, biographies, lesson plans, and more. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/dust-bowl/ -- Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41, is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that contains audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two documentation trips to migrant worker camps in California. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/ -- Official site for The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl film. Special features include biographies, interviews, and a timeline. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html -- Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html -- Site features oral history interview videos of farmers during the Dust Bowl. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ok/es_ok_dustbowl_1.html -- The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma from the Library of Congress. http://newdeal.feri.org/hopkins/hop27.htm -- Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee, August, 1936. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=events-19350414 -- NOAA site highlights information and images from the Black Sunday dust storm of April 14, 1935. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm -- Dust Bowl significant dates. http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl -- History Channel site explores 10 surprising facts about them1930s environmental disaster. Wind Erosion and Drought http://drought.unl.edu/DroughtBasics.aspx -- The National Drought Mitigation Center site defines drought, provides forecasting information, and includes historical information about the Dust Bowl. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/drought/drght_history.html -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) created a site using paleoclimatic data, to study past droughts and predict the likelihood of droughts in the future. http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ -- The National Drought Mitigation Center displays maps that show current drought conditions in the United States. http://www.weru.ksu.edu/ -- Studies conducted at the USDA-ARS Wind Erosion Laboratory at Kansas State University result in wind erosion prediction tools and control practices to sustain agriculture, protect the environment, and conserve natural resources. http://www.drought.gov/drought/content/products-current-drought-and-monitoring-wildfire/keetch-byram-drought-index -- U.S. Drought Portal provides information and link to the Keech-Byram Drought Index. http://agnews.tamu.edu/issues/drought/ -- AgriLife News: Drought site was developed by the faculty of Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas AgriLife Research to provide information and alternatives that might reduce further losses to the state's agricultural industry and to our homes and gardens. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0319dustbowl.html -- NASA explains the Dust Bowl Drought. http://www.weru.ksu.edu/vids/dust002.mpg -- Dust storm film clip from the website of the USDA/ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University. http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/itll-be-better-next-year.html -- Link to video that captures the conditions and feel of the Dust Bowl region today. General Information on the 1930s http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html -- This web site features information on 1930s dress, radio programs, comic strips, films, books, articles from many magazines including Survey Graphic, and other items related to 1930s culture. Index is here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/INDEX/index.html http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1930s.html -- Site offers hundreds of links to websites with information on the Depression, culture, books, films, cars, art, and many other topics. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1930s.html -- What things cost in the 1930s, and more information about the decade. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html -- A 1930s timeline with notable events by month. The Roosevelts http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_er.html -- Eleanor Roosevelt biography available on the FDR Presidential Library website. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_fdr.html -- Franklin D. Roosevelt biography available on the FDR Presidential Library website. Pare Lorentz http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/lorentz/front.html -- Background information on filmmaker and poet, Pare Lorentz. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/film/lorentz/plow.html -- Background information on The Plow That Broke the Plains. John Steinbeck http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit12/authors-8.html -- Background information on John Steinbeck. http://www.neabigread.org/books/grapesofwrath/ -- The Big Read – The Grapes of Wrath. Features reader’s guide and lesson ideas. Music http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html -- Background information on Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Balladeer. http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/20thcentury/photography/guthrie.html -- Clip of Guthrie singing "Dust Bowl Pneumonia" and talking about his experiences. https://www.woodyguthrie.org/index.htm -- Site includes a biography, lyrics, educational materials, and more. Photography http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap03.html -- Dorothea Lange background information and photographs. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html -- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI , 1935-1945 http://www.weru.ksu.edu/pics/dust_storms/ -- Dust Storms and their damage – the Wind Erosion Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Kansas State University archive of Dust Bowl photographs. http://www.kancoll.org/graphics/pauldale/ -- Postcards sent from Kansas showing the dust storms. http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html -- Dust Bowl photographs from the Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University. http://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_14.html -- Information on Farm Security Administration Photographers with interview clips. |