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Steinbeck and the Dustbowl

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AMERICAN MEMORY:
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
How to Cite Sources from American Memory
Documenting America - Photographs of the Great Depression
Dust Bowl During the Great Depression
Voices from the Dust Bowl - The Migrant Experience
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
What is an Ethnographic Field Collection? - Introduction to Field Techniques - How to Do Fieldwork

STEINBECK RESOURCES:
NPR : Grapes of Wrath, Present at the Creation
NYTimes review of Working Days
Interview with Ohio University Steinbeck Scholar Bob DeMott and Notes
The National Steinbeck Center
Steinbeck Country Links & Articles
Steinbeck Country Audio Interview
"Why Read John Steinbeck?"
PBS - The American Novel - THE GRAPES OF WRATH and Interview with Bob DeMott
Search Inside The Grapes of Wrath at Amazon.com
Text of The Grapes of Wrath (PDF)

PHOTOGRAPHS:
Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs
Horace Bristol's Life Magazine Photographs and the Getty Exhibition
Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
Where Fact and Fiction Intertwine - Review of Horace Bristol's Steinbeck photographs
Photographs of Tom Collins
Walker Evans Project

WOODY GUTHRIE & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:
Rambling Round: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
Official Woody Guthrie Website
Review: Biography of Woody Guthrie
Tribute to Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'
Springsteen: Steinbeck in Leather
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

RELATED SITES:
US Drought Monitor
Surviving the Dust Bowl - Timeline
The United Farm Workers of America - Chavez, Steinbeck:The ties that bind
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex By Michel Pollan
Dorthea Lange, Steinbeck and Farmworker Links
America's Heartland - Ag Artist
John Cerney - Bumper Crops for the Eye
Giant Sculpture - Crown Packing Co. and John Cerney Murals
Cheap Food Nation
Relationship Farming
Go Further - Woody Harrelson film about "green" living
Lift Every Voice - Ballads, Hymns, Spirituals & Protest Songs (Audio Clips)
Mother Jones: The Woman
Interview With Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger
The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories By James N. Gregory
Alan Lomax - Songhunter - Folklife and Field Recording - PBS
Mother Jones: The Woman

Delicious Links

Grapes of Wrath discussion questions

National Civil Rights Museum
Sun Studio

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