1919-1933

History of the 1920's from the collapse of Wilson and the New Freedom to the collapse of Wall Street and the New Era.

Volume one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Age of Roosevelt," covering the years 1919 through 1933, and discussing the Wall Street crash, the beginning of the Great Depression, and the emergence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the political stage.

Contains a collection of nonfiction writings from newspapers, periodicals, letters, and other sources, that provides critical perspectives on issues related to the Great Depression in the U.S.

Explores the impact on American society and history of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, which prohibited any use of alcohol except for religious or medicinal purposes.

Examines the period of American history beginning with the Roaring Twenties and the disastrous stock market crash of 1929 and ending with financial rebuilding through the New Deal and World War II.

Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother and her children.

Features primary source material from speeches, letters, and diaries, as well as first-hand experiences of those who were a part of the Great Depression, and describes the stock market crash of 1929, unemployment, bread line, World War Two, and more.

In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.

Chronicles political, social, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the 1930s in the U.S.

Presents the history of the Great Depression through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, and songs dating from the period. Includes review questions.