Dust Bowl: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Dust Bowl Historiography (PDF). Oct 19, 2026
Cross-reference added to Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. Aug 18, 2026
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - The Dust Bowl. Jul 20, 2026
Article revised and updated. Jun 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - How the Great Plains Dust Bowl drought spread heat extremes around the Northern Hemisphere. May 11, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation. Nov 27, 2025
Add new Web site: OpenSIUC - The Dust Bowl: An Environmental Disaster on the Great Plains (PDF). Aug 21, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - What we learned from the Dust Bowl: lessons in science, policy, and adaptation. Jul 12, 2025
Add new Web site: Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Did dust storms make the Dust Bowl drought worse? Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at University of Nebraska - Lincoln - Dust Bowl Historiography (PDF). May 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Library of Congress - U.S. History Primary Source Timeline - The Dust Bowl. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - The Dust Bowl: A wake-up call in environmental practices. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: EH.net - The Dust Bowl. Dec 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - Dust Bowl. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - The Dust Bowl. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - Surviving the Dust Bowl. Jul 07, 2023
Map added. May 30, 2023
Add new Web site: The National Endowment for the Humanities - Children of the Dust. Apr 04, 2023
Add new Web site: American Heritage - Dust! Nov 11, 2022
Add new Web site: Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Dust Bowl. Sep 01, 2022
Add new Web site: National Drought Mitigation Center - The Dust Bowl. May 15, 2022
Add new Web site: Colorado Encyclopedia - The Dust Bowl. May 15, 2022
Add new Web site: U-S-History - The Dust Bowl. May 15, 2022
Article revised and updated. Jan 04, 2022
Add new Web site: Tha Balance - The Dust Bowl, Its Causes, Impact, With a Timeline and Map. Mar 13, 2021
Added mentions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath nd Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl songs. Dec 03, 2019
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - The Dust Bowl. Mar 08, 2019
Added definition of windbreaks. Dec 12, 2017
Media added. Dec 12, 2017
Add new Web site: Wessels Living History Farm, York, Nebraska - The Dust Bowl. Jan 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Kansas Historical Society - Kansapedia - Dust Bowl. Jan 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Easy Science For Kids - The Dust Bowl. Sep 20, 2016
Add new Web site: Modern American Poetry - Dust Bowl. Feb 05, 2014
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Dust Bowl. Nov 10, 2008
Media added. May 15, 2007
Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Voices from the Dust Bowl. Oct 13, 2006
Added new Web site: PBS Online - Surviving the Dust Bowl. Sep 15, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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