History 332 (1929 - 1941)

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Online Reference  |  Overviews  |  Magazines and newspapers  | Web sites

Reference Books

American Decades – R 973.92 A512	The Great Depression – R 973.917 G786
Annals of America – R 973 A613	The Great Depression – R 973.91 B9542 g, 2005
The FDR Years – R 973.917 P3714 f	The Great Depression in America – R 973.91 Y784 g
Franklin D. Roosevelt – R 973.917 F8317	Historical Dictionary of the New Deal – R 973.917 H6734
Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and the New Deal – R 973.917 C5733 e
The New Era and the New Deal, 1920 1940 – R 016.97391 B9593 n
Social Security: A Documentary History – R 368.43 D5227 s
Working Americans: 1880-1999 – vols. 1-8 – R 305.562 D4337 w

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Online Reference

American National Biography (also in print) – Portraits of more than 17,000 American men and women.
History Database Center – Includes biographies, subject entries, chronologies, primary sources, maps and charts, and images.
Salem History – Includes the complete content of Milestone Documents, The Decades (an American history series), Great Lives from History (worldwide coverage), and Great Events from History (worldwide coverage).

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Overviews

The Constitution and the New Deal – floor 2M – 342.73029 W5844 c
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 – floor 2 – 973.91 K998 d, 2004
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope – floor 2 – 973.917 A4665 d
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression – floor 2 – 973.916 S5585 f
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s – floor 2 – 973.917 W3358 g   
The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 – floor 2 – 973.916 M1525 g  
The Great Depression and the New Deal – floor 2 – 973.92 H658 g 

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Magazines and Newspapers

JSTOR – Full text of more than 950 journals.
The Nation Archive – The Nation magazine, 1865 on.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers  – Search the full text of the New York Times and 9 other newspapers.
Reader's Guide Retrospective – Indexing only (no full-text) for 370 magazines, 1890-1982.

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Web Sites (primary-source materials)

American Life Histories 1936 to 1940 – Library of Congress (Federal Writers' Project) – A collection of manuscripts that describe an individual's education, income, occupation, and political views.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum – A digital archives that includes diplomatic correspondence, Roosevelt's "fireside chats", photographs, and audio clips.
The New Deal Network – Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Columbia University – A database of over 20,000 photographs, speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal era.
Voices from the Dust Bowl – Library of Congress – A collection of audio clips, photographs, and manuscript materials that document the everyday life of central California residents in 1940-41.

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