1918-1945

Examines the Great Depression, including the events leading up to it, what it was like during that time, and how the New Deal revived the economy.

Text and illustrations explore the causes and effects of the Great Depression, along with the positive and negative outcomes of it.

Topics include the Progressive Movement, Child labor, Women's suffrage, strikes, the 1919 World Series, the sinking of the Lusitania, Eugene V. Debs, the League of Nations, the 1919 Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition, etc.

In 1934, Vango, a young Frenchman who is about to take his priestly vows, finds himself falsely accused of murder. To clear his name, he must travel across Europe in search of clues to his hidden past.

Examines the topic of the Depression from the economic, historical, cultural, and social perspectives.

Profusely illustrated text discusses life in the United States during World War II.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.

Demonstrates how the American economy emerges in patterns of "irrationally exuberant" highs which lead to painful lows, providing examples of the worst practices and circumstances, and discusses market mechanisms, popular pressures, and the workings or failings of regulation.

Explores the 1930s in American history through an analysis of forty primary documents, on a variety of subjects including: The Great Depression, New Deal, programs, economic downturn and bank failures, Dust Bowl conditions, and the repeal of prohibition, in a variety of genres such as journals, letters, speeches, legislation, and court opinions.

"Offers in-depth critical analysis of 40 primary source documents important to this uproarious decade in American history. Articles begin by introducing readers to the historical context, followed by a description of the author's life and circumstances in which the document was written"--Provided by publisher.