Special Features
- Interview: J.R. Davison
- Interview: Donald Worster
- General Article: The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Interview: Imogene Glover
- Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Interview: Melt White
The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death.
My American Experience
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Did you or a family member experience life in America in the 1930s? What does the decade mean to you? Share your American experience with us.
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Drought Evokes Memories of 1930s Dust Bowl
It's not often that weather forecasters say that a hurricane would offer welcome relief to a region. But as Texas, Oklahoma and much of the South endure record-breaking drought, some weather forecasters have speculated that a hurricane is the best hope that region has for breaking the dry heat, and avoiding devastation on the level of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
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Mount Rushmore
The world's largest piece of sculpture on a hillside in South Dakota, completed by temperamental artist Gutzon Borgium.
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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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Wild By Law
Robert Marshall, Aldo Leopold and Howard Zahniser dedicated their lives to protect the shrinking American wilderness.
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The Johnstown Flood
When an earthen dam broke without warning, a small city in Pennsylvania was swept away in a wall of water over 30 feet high.
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Ansel Adams
The life of the legendary photographer, known best for his black and white images of the wilderness of the American West.
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Alone on the Ice
In 1934, American polar explorer Richard Byrd became the first to experience winter in Antarctica's interior.
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World
The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry.
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The Greely Expedition
A daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism amongst a group left abandoned in the high Arctic.
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