Podcast 60 - The Dust Bowl & Depression

Sara Cochran and Jean Hibben discuss the life in the US during the Dust Bowl period and its lead-in to the Depression. Below (from the Library of Congress, photo by Dorothea Lange) is a gathering of farmers in Iowa in 1936:

The resources used in the podcast on the Dust Bowl and Depression:

War pay for soldiers: https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-is-how-much-troops-were-paid-in-every-major-american-war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Ya_Gonna_Keep_%27em_Down_on_the_Farm_(After_They%27ve_Seen_Paree)%3F

financial issues/timelines:

https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-dust-bowl-causes-and-effects-3305689

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

https://www.denverpost.com/2011/05/12/when-deadly-dirt-devastated-the-southern-plains/

Photos

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dust-bowl-surviving-dust-bowl/

General

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/dust-bowl-cause.htm

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/legacy/

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1583.html

Insect control

https://www.southwestfarmpress.com/livestock/drought-may-favor-grasshoppers

https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/soybean-grasshopper.php

Letters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1936/05/letters-from-the-dust-bowl/308897/

history repeating itself: https://bigthink.com/the-proverbial-skeptic/those-who-do-not-learn-history-doomed-to-repeat-it-really

death codes: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/nchs2012/li-14_minino.pdf

http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/icd3h.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/hb_cod.pdf

https://familyhistorydaily.com/free-genealogy-resources/icd-codes-death-certificates-genealogy/

BOOKS:

Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

Woody Guthrie, Born to Win, New York: Collier Books, 1965, 1967.

--- Bound for Glory, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968.

Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, New York: Avon Books, 1970.

Woody Guthrie, World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1943

Retrieved from the Library of Congress website

Accompanying podcast is #60 on http://genjourney.podbean,com, to be posted shortly.