depressions

An assessment of the political and physical dangers faced by the newly elected President Roosevelt in 1933 profiles such adversaries as would-be assassin Giuseppe Zangara and populist demagogues Huey Long and Charles Coughlin.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

With her mama recently dead and her pa out of the picture since her birth, big sister Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister - and the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father - and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard.

An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression experiences acts prejudice and discrimination that are not understood by the children.

Presents a collection of facts that looks at the Great Depression in the United States.

Offers a graphic novel exploration of significant people and events during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.

A graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression which focuses on the economic realities and the largely forgotten individuals and events that influenced the period, asserting that the government made the Depression "great" by overlooking the men and women who were trying to help themselves.

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

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.