Of Mice and Men

Collection of primary source documents about the Dust Bowl. Provided by the Library of Congress.

What if you had lived in the Dust Bowl? Find out what life was like during the severe drought of the 1930s. Hosted by PBS, this website also contains great biographical information on important figures, videos, and general information on the Dust Bowl.

Could the US experience another Dust Bowl Era? NPR explores the topic of present day droughts in America with links to further articles.

This documentary chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
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