U. S. HISTORY - THE DEPRESSION

The 1936 - 1937 Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike

The Great Depression - Herbert Hoover Library and Museum

The Great Depression images from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, maintained by the National Archives.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal

The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1939

A New Deal for the Arts
    During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, federal tax dollars employed artists, musicians, actors, writers, photographers, and dancers. Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts.