The document provides United States history teachers with suggested teaching techniques from a variety of popular culture genre used during the thirties to help secondary students examine various social, cultural, economic, and political events, that encompass the Great Depression era. The popular culture forms described and discussed as techniques are: (1) depression pop art, (2) the pulp magazine, (3) the radio broadcast, and (4) the "Living Newspaper" theatre. These techniques represent effective ways in which U.S. history comes alive in the minds of students. These methods take students from a narrow one-here-now experience to a broader them-there-then experience to help students develop an awareness and understanding of selected historical concepts and topical problems and gain a perspective of the human drama that characterized the common man and woman. Described are: (1) the historical background of each popular culture genre; (2) the procedure for using each genre as a classroom technique; and (3) a form of evaluation for each technique. (APG)