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The great migration and the Harlem Renaissance

by Sabina G Arora

Overground railroad: the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

1930s: From the Great Depression to the Wizard of Oz

by Stephen Feinstein

Crash: the Great Depression and the fall and rise of America

by Marc Favreau

Down and Out in the Great Depression: letters from the "forgotten man"

by Robert S. McElvaine

Dust to eat: drought and depression in the 1930s

by Michael Cooper

FDR's Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, 1932-1939

Hard Times: the 1930s

Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck

War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by Frank Baum

Bud not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Brave New World

by Aldus Huxley

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

All the Stars Denied

by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neal Hurston

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

Woodie Guthrie

Woodie Guthrie biography

America's Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Billie Holiday, singer

(biography)