President’s Reading Program Resources
Information about Timothy Egan and The Worst Hard Time
- National Book Award website: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006_nf_egan.html
- Timothy Egan Biography
- The Worst Hard Time video
Information about Ken Burns’ documentary The Dust Bowl
- PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
- The Dust Bowl Press Release
- The Dust Bowl Station Fact Sheet
Information and Discussion Guides
- Publisher’s Discussion Guide: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/egan_worst.shtml
- Honors College Chapter by Chapter Discussion Guide
- Major Characters Synopsis
Dust Storms and Drought in Lubbock and Today’s Society
- The Dust Bowl in Lubbock County: An Interview with a Survivor
- Black Blizzards, An essay by Jeremy Tow
- Lubbock’s Dust Storms Today – information and discussion questions.
- The Worst Hard Time Connection to Today: Yellow Dust/Sand in Asia
- How One Drought Changed Texas Agriculture Forever, from NPR
Places to Visit
- Texas Tech University National Ranching Heritage Center
- American Wind Power Center and Museum
- American Museum of Agriculture
- TTU Law School Center for Water Law and Policy
- International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies
Additional Resources Related to the Era