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The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '30s" or "the Thirties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. In the United States, the Dust Bowl led to the nickname the "Dirty Thirties".
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
Arlan Stangeland, American farmer and politician (d. 2013) February 10. Anne Wexler, American political consultant and public policy advisor (d. 2009) Robert Wagner, American actor; February 11 – James Polshek, American architect (d. 2022) [20] February 12. Bert Clark, American football player and coach (d. 2004) Arlen Specter, American ...
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. (1931), the first and still the most widely read survey of the era, complete text online free. Best, Gary Dean. The Dollar Decade: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America. (2003). Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (1990) Cohen, Lizabeth ...
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998). Advanced economic history. Bremer, William W. "Along the American Way: The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed." Journal of American History 62 (December 1975): 636–652 online; Cannadine, David (2007). Mellon: An American Life.
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