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Websites about The Grapes of Wrath

• Grapes of Wrath - Book Blurb — Penguin 1976
  - book and chapter summaries, character list, maps, and context links
  http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html (Ed Stephan; )
  
  
• Welcome to my "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) study site by G. Smith
  Resources, themes, links, etc.
  http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/grapes.html
  
  
• The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) by Tim Dirks
  Film review of John Ford's 1940 adaptation of Steinbeck's novel
  http://www.filmsite.org/grap.html (FilmSite.org; )

Websites about John Steinbeck

• The California Novels by Ed Stephan
  Collection of Steinbeck links plus comprehensive information on each of the California novels
  http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/
  
  
• National Steinbeck Center
  Biography, Timeline, Educational Resources
  http://www.steinbeck.org/
  
  
• John Steinbeck
  Steinbeck biography and information on the Grapes of Wrath, including various links
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/centurions/steinbeck/steibiog.shtml (BBC; )
  
  
• Center for Steinbeck Studies
  http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html (San Jose State University;  )
  
  
• John Steinbeck Page by Scott Simkins
  Primary Texts, Secondary Texts, Further Steinbeck Links
  http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~wsimkins/steinb.html
  
  
• Steinbeck, John: 1902 - 1968
  Facts, author information, geographical information
  http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/steinbeckj/ (EducETH; )

Websites about the Dust Bowl

• Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html (The Library of Congress; )
  
  
• America from the Great Depression to World War II - US Library of Congress Photographs from the FSA-OWI (1935-45)
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html (The Library of Congress; )
  
  
• Weedpatch Camp (Arvin Federal government Camp) by Dorothy Stanley
  Published in 1939, John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath drew attention to the hardships faced by the "Okies": poor farmers who moved from the Dust Bowl area to California in search of work. While writing the book, John Steinbeck lived in Bakersfield, California and based his book on Arvin Federal Government Camp which he portrayed as "Weedpatch Camp." This camp exists today and is still used by migrant workers.
  http://www.netxn.com/~weedpatch/
  
  
• Surviving the Dust Bowl
  Supplementary website for the PBS film "Surving the Dust Bowl" with timeline, maps, teacher resources, video, etc.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ (PBS; )
  
  
• A New Deal for the Arts
  During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, federal tax dollars employed artists, musicians, actors, writers, photographers, and dancers. Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts.
  http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/new_deal_for_the_arts/ (National Archives and Records Administration; )
  
  
• New Deal Network
  The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  http://newdeal.feri.org/ (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; )