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1930's Timeline 
Yearly table of major events in America during the Great Depression and New Deal.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html
Great Myths of the Great Depression 
Critique of some established views about the Great Depression of 1929-1941 written by the economist Lawrence W. Reed.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=4013
Main Causes of the Great Depression 
A short paper on the origins of the Great Depression. Discusses economic problems and policies that led to the American economic collapse in the 1930s. Includes bibliography.
http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
New Deal Art During the Great Depression 
Information and photos of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, and California. Includes biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, and other odd bits of information.
http://www.wpamurals.com/
New Deal Network 
Educational site focused on the programs of FDR's New Deal. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Riding the Rails 
Book review of author Errol Lincoln Uys, including a collection of letters from 1930s train-hopping hobos.
http://www.erroluys.com/frontpage.htm
Stock Market Crash 
A comparison of the stock market crash of 1929 to crashes in 1987 and 2000.
http://www.vanenschot.com/finance/stockmarketcrash.html
Stock Market Crash of 1929 
Information about the stock market crash and how it lead to the Great Depression. Includes chart, glossary and links.
http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm
The Depression News - The 1930s 
Stories of Michigan labor unions and the Flint sit-down strike, Paul Honore's Natural Resources Mural, bungalows, radio, lighthouses and the Great Lakes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan.
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
The Economic Consequences of the Peace 
The writing by John Maynard Keynes that attacked the effects of Versailles Settlement for its effects on Germany and probably contributed to a lack of resistance when Hitlerism took over Germany.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace
The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 
An article by Lawrence Reed of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, arguing that the gold standard did not cause the Great Depression.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=686
The Great Crash and the Great Slump 
A study of the economics of the Great Depression by J. Bradford De Long of University of California at Berkeley.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
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