The+Dust+Bowl

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**Event Summary**

 * The Dust Bowl, 1930 to 1940, Library of Congress**
 * **One of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th Century**
 * **3 million people left their farms on the Great Plains**
 * **Half a million migrated to other states**


 * The Dust Bowl, National Drought Mitigation Center**


 * About the Dust Bowl, from Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois**


 * Letters from the Dust Bowl**

Dust Bowl Primary Source Set, Library of Congress


 * Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor**


 * Learning about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Through Primary ****Sources, Oklahoma Historical Society**


 * [[image:podcast icon.png width="72" height="72" link="@http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ok/es_ok_dustbowl_1.html"]]Listen to Mrs. Flora Robertson Talk about Dust Storms in Oklahoma**

The Great American Dust Bowl. Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin, 2012. Graphic novel describing the Dust Bowl and its causes

Trailer for the PBS Video, the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl: A Film by Ken Burns

Did Dust Storms Make the Dust Bowl Worse?Columbia University

NASA Scientists are Comparing Climate Change to the Dust Bowl, Business Insider Magazine (October 20, 2015)
 * See also NASA Explains the Dust Bowl Drought

Minnesota Students Interview Elders Who Survived the Great Depression

**See Influential Literature Page on The Grapes of Wrath**

[[image:Screen Shot 2017-03-18 at 11.16.22 AM.png]]Music of the Dust Bowl

 * Songs of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl Migrants, Library of Congress**


 * Dust Bowl Ballads, Smithsonian Folkways**


 * [[image:Multimedia.png link="@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQYKJaWuj0Y"]]Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues, audio on YouTube with images added from the album Dust Bowl Ballads**
 * **Dust Bowl Ballads was Woody Guthrie's first commercial album**


 * Ry Cooder and Dust Bowl Ballads**
 * **Ry Cooder and Chicken Skin Band perform Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballard Do Re Mi in 1977**
 * **Dust Bowl Disaster, Arlo Guthrie**


 * [[image:Quill_and_ink.png]]See Woody Guthrie Historical Biography Page**