An Aug. 10 article noted “the James River at Richmond is one foot below the zero mark, a record low reading for the ten years which measurements have been kept.” ...

but a years-long drought would transform the Great Plains into a Dustbowl, intensifying the suffering of those who sought work there. The Stock Market Crash may have sparked the Great Depression ...

in addition to conceptual definitions of drought. Upon completion of a unit on the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl period and viewing "Falconer's Memoir," students will design a research ...

It signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Canada was one of the ... And in 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought set in on parts of the prairies. The once-lush fields dried up and ...

At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million ... and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death. The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms to find work in the cities. Pictured here, settlers leaving farms in the "dry belt" areas in ...

Thousands of people were involved in the massive engineering project during the Great Depression ... change is exacerbating the situation. The drought has for weeks been gripping several states ...