The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl ... For other uses, see Dust Bowl (disambiguation). The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and ...
Dust Bowl: Causes, Definition & Years | HISTORY
The Dust Bowl refers to the drought‑stricken southern plains of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during the Great ...
The Dust Bowl | National Drought Mitigation Center
The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used it to describe the drought-affected south central United States.
The Dust Bowl | Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
In some places, the dust drifted like snow, covering farm buildings and houses. Nineteen states in the heartland of the United States became a vast dust bowl.
Watch The Dust Bowl | Ken Burns - PBS
The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts ...
Dust Bowl | Definition, Duration, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Dust Bowl, both the drought period lasting from 1930 to 1936 in the U.S. Great Plains and the part of the Great Plains where overcultivation ...
Timeline: The Dust Bowl | American Experience | Official Site - PBS
Timeline: The Dust Bowl · 1931. Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. · 1932. The number of dust storms is increasing. · March 4, 1933. When ...
What was the Dust Bowl? | Oklahoma Historical Society
By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl. In Oklahoma, the Panhandle area was hit hardest by the drought.
A Man-Made Ecological Disaster | The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the greatest man-made ecological disaster in the history of the United States. It encompassed a region 150000 square miles long, ...
Dust Bowl | State Historical Society of Iowa
During the summers of 1934, 1936 and 1939-40, little rain fell, creating drought conditions in Iowa and across the Midwest. Extreme high temperatures topped 100 ...
The Dust Bowl, California, and the Politics of Hard Times
This exhibit examined the cultural, social, and political impact the Dust Bowl migrants had on California.
A two-part, four-hour documentary from Ken Burns, chronicles this critical moment in American history in all its complexities and profound human drama.
Great Depression and the Dust Bowl | State Historical Society of Iowa
During the Great Depression, a series of droughts combined with non-sustainable agricultural practices led to devastating dust storms, famine, diseases and ...
Children of the Dust | National Endowment for the Humanities
This, in its broadest outlines, was the strange, self-blighted world of the Dust Bowl, a shifting zone of catastrophes (defined by what counties in the region ...
Dust Bowl Migration | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress
Primary Source Set Dust Bowl Migration · Unfit for Man or Beast. The dust penetrated everything and everywhere. · Moving West. Though they tried to hang on, ...
Dust Bowl | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
DUST BOWL. The Dust Bowl period that occurred during the drought years of the 1930s represents a remarkable era in the settlement history of the West. From a ...
Dust storms in the 1930s Dust Bowl - Columbia University
Alas, while natural prairie grasses can survive a drought the wheat that was planted could not and, when the precipitation fell, it shriveled and died exposing ...
As the Climate Warms, Could the U.S. Face Another Dust Bowl?
scientists are now warning that two inescapable realities — rising temperatures and worsening drought — could still spawn a modern-day Dust Bowl ...
Multiple causes of wind erosion in the Dust Bowl - ScienceDirect.com
Severe wind erosion occurred in the Dust Bowl region in the 1930s. This was due to the combination of farming practices conducive to erosion, economic ...
The 1930s and 1940s saw this region devastated by the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, a series of dust storms that ravaged the land due ...