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ENG 9: Of Mice and Men: Social Groups & Issues

A guide to accompany the novel study OF MICE AND MEN, this gives social, economic, geographical context as well as information about the author.

Migrant Workers

Photos by Dorothea Lange, via The History Place

The Migrant Experience, via Library of Congress

Working Conditions: "Harvest of Shame" revisited (full 1960s documentary HERE)

Hoovervilles

Photos of Hoovervilles, via Library of Congress

Cognitive Disorders

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States

A History of Mental Health Treatment

Blaming the "Defective" People

Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 States

Eliminating the Inferior: American and Nazi Sterilization Programs

Gender Roles in the 1930s

The Impact of the Great Depression on Women

The Impact of the Great Depression on Families

The Impact of the Great Depression on Men

Great Depression Cooking

African Americans in the 1930s

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, interactive via PBS

The Impact of the Great Depression on African Americans

Black Americans in the 1930s