Of Mice and Men: Great Depression (American)

All Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn't attend because they had to go to work and schools that simply closed their doors.

On October 29, 1929, better known as Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed, abruptly ending a decade of prosperity and catapulting the United States into the Great Depression, arguably the worst economic crisis the country has ever experienced.

Through this book, readers will learn important events and facts that deal with the Great Depression.

Drawing on the tragedies and struggles that defined the Great Depression era, artists of all genres endeavored through their works to touch the millions of Americans whose lives were abruptly changed in the 1930s.

The Hungry Years draws on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of Americans in a time of unprecedented crisis.

In the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the American West documenting the experiences of those devastated by the Great Depression. She wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change.