Audio

Music

“Hobo Bill’s Last Ride”
Music by Jimmie Rodgers.

Library of Congress: “Voices from the Dust Bowl”
Audio and photographs from the Library of Congress.

“Riding the Rails” Series: Music
Hobo songs from the PBS series, “Riding the Rails.”

This Land is Your Land: Rural Music and the Depression
How country music evolved from the traditional rural music of the Depression.

Radio/News Broadcasts

FDR Library: Fireside Chats
Transcripts of the fireside chats from FDR.

FDR Library: Fireside Chats
Actual audio of a few fireside chats.

Internet Archive: FDR Fireside Chats
More fireside chats.

University of Virginia: Complete Audio Recordings of FDR Speeches
More speeches from FDR, and in a better format.

University of Virginia: FDR Presidential Recordings
Audio of FDR, beginning in 1940.  A limited collection, but growing.

Oral Histories

More memories on life during the Great Depression, this from the New Deal site.

This oral gallery includes numerous interviews conducted by Studs Terkel for his book on the Great Depression, Hard Times.