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American Studies: Studies by Decade or Era

A research guide supporting the American Studies program and affiliated courses.

Depression Era

PBS's American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Information, timeline, general articles about the dust bowl.
It Happened One Decade: What the Great Depression Did to Culture
Article published in the Sept. 21, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.
Primary Source Materials--Library of Congress
Contains materials for the Dust Bowl and The New Deal.

1950s

1950s
Click the drop-down menu up top to reveal more detailed information from this decade.
McCarthyism
From the Eisenhower Presidential Library

1960s

PBS's The Sixties Timeline
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PBS's The Sixties Resource Library
Includes print and electronic resources.
Civil Rights Era from the African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)