Social History of the Dust Bowl
Category
Business, Education and Humanities
Department
History
Student Status
Undergraduate
Research Advisor
Dr. Kyle Thompson
Document Type
Event
Location
Student Center Ballroom
Start Date
10-4-2025 2:00 PM
End Date
10-4-2025 4:00 PM
Description
The aim of this research paper is to examine the lives of rural, everyday Kansans who experienced the Dust Bowls of the 1930s. Particularly, this paper seeks to explore both the ordinary, through examining the lives of farmers, rural women and the household, community, and the extraordinary, through the participation and aid of the federal government under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, especially those of the AAA and SCS, in the lives of those who lived amidst the natural disaster. In exploring these aspects, this paper hopes to provide a detailed picture of the determination and tenacity of rural Kansans who survived the ordeals of the Dust Bowl and to pass on these virtues to the modern reader living in an age of climate crisis. This paper will be using both primary and secondary sources in the form of monographs and articles to achieve its aim. Furthermore, its presentation will be demonstrated through a poster that aims to display the areas and people in Kansas affected by the Dust Bowl and how they responded. In the end, this paper seeks to explore the social history of the Dust Bowl in Kansas by exploring the everyday lives of farmers, rural women and their households, the dissipating communities of those who stayed, and the impact of the federal government, on those living in extraordinary circumstances and to pass on the qualities learned from these people to the modern reader in an age of climate calamity.
Social History of the Dust Bowl
Student Center Ballroom
The aim of this research paper is to examine the lives of rural, everyday Kansans who experienced the Dust Bowls of the 1930s. Particularly, this paper seeks to explore both the ordinary, through examining the lives of farmers, rural women and the household, community, and the extraordinary, through the participation and aid of the federal government under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, especially those of the AAA and SCS, in the lives of those who lived amidst the natural disaster. In exploring these aspects, this paper hopes to provide a detailed picture of the determination and tenacity of rural Kansans who survived the ordeals of the Dust Bowl and to pass on these virtues to the modern reader living in an age of climate crisis. This paper will be using both primary and secondary sources in the form of monographs and articles to achieve its aim. Furthermore, its presentation will be demonstrated through a poster that aims to display the areas and people in Kansas affected by the Dust Bowl and how they responded. In the end, this paper seeks to explore the social history of the Dust Bowl in Kansas by exploring the everyday lives of farmers, rural women and their households, the dissipating communities of those who stayed, and the impact of the federal government, on those living in extraordinary circumstances and to pass on the qualities learned from these people to the modern reader in an age of climate calamity.
