Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

Sit-down strike in Detroit

Several different strikes - auto plant, shoe factory, newspaper office and cannery.

Tough Guys: Investigation and arraignment of Bruno Hauptmann (for Lindbergh kidnapping and murder)

Beer drinkers have sit-down strike when price of beer goes up to ten cents.

In the early twentieth century, thousands of homesteaders and "suitcase farmers" converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Millions of acres of virgin sod are plowed up. Caroline Henderson stakes her claim in a strip of Oklahoma called No Man's Land, and for a while prosperity seems certain for her and the families of two dozen survivors who provide eyewitness testimony. Then, in...

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.