Films
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Paper Moon (1973; Netflix)
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The Sting (1973; Amazon Instant)
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King of the Hill (Netflix)
Documentaries:
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Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 4 - The True Welcome: 1929-1934 (Amazon Instant)
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Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 5 - Swing: Pure Pleasure: 1935-1939 (Amazon Instant)
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Ken Burns: Jazz - Episode 6 - Swing: The Velocity of Celebration: 1937-1939 (Amazon Instant)
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
Nonfiction:
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Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman
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A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk: A Boy's View of the Great Depression by Robert J. Hastings
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A Penny's Worth of Minced Ham: Another Look at the Great Depression by Robert J. Hastings
Historical Fiction
- A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Nowhere to Call Home by Cynthia DeFelice - teenage hobos
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - Dust Bowl
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 by Frederick Allen Lewis (HTML, PDF) (1940)
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The Aspirin Age: The Essential Events of American Life Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1941 ed. by Isabel Leighton - Essays (1976)
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 by W.E. Leuchtenburg (1958)
- The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 by Dixon Wechter (1948)
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy
- Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley
A lengthier list of nonfiction titles can be found here.
Historical Fiction:
- If I Have Four Apples by Josephine Lawrence
- One More Spring by Robert Nathan
- It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Triumph of Willie Pond by Caroline Slade
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
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