1919-1933

Presents the history of the 1920 presidential campaign and election that featured six once-and-future presidents in the race including Harding, Wilson, Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Hoover. Discusses how the presidential hopefuls positioned themselves within the political climate of the time. Describes how the campaigns heralded modern politics with unprecedented spending and advertising.

An introduction to the Great Depression, covering leaders, economics, the New Deal, and more. Includes teacher notes.

"Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression felt not only in North America, but worldwide. Source material, including posters, political cartoons, books, interviews, and articles show the devastation of the resulting mass unemployment, epidemic real estate foreclosures, and crushing poverty of those years."--Provided by publisher.

"Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents; provides readers with an understanding of the great cultural issues of life in America in the 1930s; integrates and aligns material for the ELA Common Core Standards and American literature and social studies curriculum, supplying useful tools to support literary works--analysis, history, document excerpts, discussion questions, and areas for study; places three of the most significant writers of the decade within the sources of turmoil that affected their fiction; enables readers to construct their own visions of how three great writers represented the changing aspects of American culture in that era"--Provided by publisher.

Presents alphabetical, cross-referenced entries on the people, issues, scandals, fads, events, and ideas that affected the United States in the 1920s.

Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression felt not only in North America, but worldwide. Source material, including posters, political cartoons, books, interviews, and articles show the devastation of the resulting mass unemployment, epidemic real estate foreclosures, and crushing poverty of those years.

Examines significant events in the history of the U.S., focusing on the Great Depression and the New Deal, with discussion of the causes of the stock market crash, President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the crisis, and the Social Security Act.

Reenactments, readings, and interviews explore major events of the 1920s including the automobile culture, the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, and prohibition.

Explores the enormous social and cultural changes that took place in the United States during the 1920s.

Examines the causes and consequences of the American dust bowl in the 1930s.