The 1930s

America’s response to the unprecedented economic crisis that threatened the nation during one of history’s most tumultuous decades

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Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.

The evocative stories of teenage hoboes crisscrossing America on trains during the Great Depression.

The story of the farmers who dreamed of prosperity and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.

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The New Deal program CCC put three million young men to work in camps across America.

The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, 1929.

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During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, one of the greatest engineering works in history.

Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.