1930's and '40's

• Authentic History -- Images and recordings from the 1930's, World War II, and the later 1940's.

• Children of Minidoka

  • History, photographs, related historical documents, and essays by students interned at the Japanese-American internment camp at Minidoka, Idaho during World War II. A project of the University of Washington Library.
• Cold War
  • The Cold War Museum is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Smithsonian and dedicated to education, preservation, and research on the global, ideological, and political confrontations of the years from the 1940's to 1990's.
• Depression & WW II

  • Biographical articles and pictures from the Library of Congress, searchable by keyword, state, time period, job occupation, etc. Also video and audio recordings.

• Inventions 1926-1950
• New Deal Network
  • Memoirs, news articles, letters, and pictures from the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Includes issues of the literary magazine of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx from 1929-1942.

• Radio Days
  • Recordings of early radio broadcasts, including dramatic, comic, and futuristic series, and news events, some in downloadable mp3 format. Also biographical and critical articles about radio pioneers and actors and the cultural significance of early radio programming.
• Surviving the Dust Bowl
  • History, photos, maps, timeline, biographical information, and an eyewitness account of the devastating drought in the Great Plains in the 1930's.
• World War II Resources on the Web