Research Guides: IDS 101: The Great American Road Trip: Web Resources

Great Depression

Great Depression and New Deal
From the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, this site offers photos, facts and figures, and more.

The Library of Congress provides access to a variety of wonderful multimedia resources. Below are a few examples:

Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941
This "is an online presentation of selections from a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941."
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Black and white Depression era photos from the Prints and Photographs collection.
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs
Color Depression era photos from the Prints and Photographs collection.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940
"This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940."

Roadside America
Travel writers Doug Kirby, Ken Smith and Mike Wilkins created this interesting website in 1994. The site provides all sorts of information on offbeat tourist attractions across America.
RoadTrip America
Online since 1996, “RoadTrip America offers advice, inspiration, resources, and camaraderie to all those who hear the call of the open road.”