The Dust Bowl was a man-made environmental disaster. A long drought in the 1930s triggered disaster. Wind carried off the topsoil--dried out by intensive farming--in enormous dust storms that turned day into night as they destroyed farms. The Pare Lorentz Film Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum has produced this new animated video on FDR and the Dust Bowl. This video was created by FDR’s great-granddaughter Perrin Ireland. We hope teachers will use it to help the

Today in 1935, “Black Sunday,” the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl, tore through the central plains of the United States. Among those who faced nature's wrath was Woody Guthrie, who offered a musical chronicle of resilience amid despair with his song "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh." Watch our UNUM playlist on the Dust Bowl to learn more about one of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unum/playlist/the-dust-bowl-film | UNUM Ken Burns