Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph 'Migrant Mother', a worried woman with two of her children leaning on her
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Marked Wall Street

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Great Depression

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, banks failed, trade collapsed and millions lost their jobs around the world. In the United States, drought turned farmland into the Dust Bowl.

Place
Wall Street · Oklahoma · Jarrow · BerlinThe whole world
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet
Image
Dorothea Lange, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe crash
  2. IIBanks fail
  3. IIIThe Dust Bowl
  4. IVThe Jarrow March
  5. VThe New Deal
  6. VIDepression and dictators

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Dorothea Lange
  • Ellen Wilkinson
  • John Maynard Keynes

Objects

  • Migrant Mother
  • The Jarrow petition

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1929 to 1939. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?