Special Features
- Map, interactive: CCC Projects Across the U.S.
- Interview: Neil Maher
- Bonus Video: Author Interview: Neil Maher
- Timeline: The Evolution of the CCC
- Photo Gallery: The Civilian Conservation Corps
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
One of the most popular New Deal programs, the CCC put three million young men to work in camps across America during the height of the Great Depression.
My American Experience
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The Gold Rush
The worldwide migration by eager gold-seekers turned California into a land of opportunity and fierce competition.
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Custer's Last Stand
The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.
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The Great Famine
The American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921 during the worst natural disaster in Europe in 500 years.
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The Hurricane of '38
Before radar had been invented a devastating hurricane hit America, surprising residents of the East Coast and killing more than 600 people.
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The Donner Party
Three years before the Gold Rush, 87 pioneers took a shortcut westward to California, only to get caught in the snows of the Sierra Nevada.
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Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
A personal story of one family's dramatic effort to hold onto their family farm in Iowa as massive foreclosures sweep the nation in the 1990s.
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Walt Whitman
Today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history, poet Walt Whitman was denounced by critics in his own time.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Her 1963 warnings about the effects of pesticides and herbicides sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
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