great depression, 1929-1939

Examines the development of the government work programs of the Great Depression era, including the Works Progress Administration, and Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and the Civil Works Administration; discusses their successes and failures; and considers the lessons learned from such programs.

A collection of illustrated, black-and-white photographs by American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Dorothea Lange, depicting American migrant workers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression.

In 1936 Middle Swan, Colorado, eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort befriends seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, who recently lost a daughter and whose husband works on a dredge boat, by inviting her into her knitting circle and passing down stories about the small town.

Mildred Kalish recounts the experiences she had while growing up on her grandparents' farm in Iowa during the Great Depression.

Contains entries that provide information on various aspects of American popular culture from the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, covering art, architecture, aviation, comics, expositions/fairs, film, food and drink, government, literature, music, newspapers, organizations, radio, social issues, sports, theater, travel, and youth; arranged alphabetically from A to M.

A history of the Great Depression, focusing on the economic realities and the largely forgotten individuals and events that influenced the period, and arguing that World War II and not the New Deal policies of President Franklin Roosevelt was responsible for the economic recovery of the United States.

The prolific author describes how his interest in writing developed as he was growing up in the Oklahoma of the Depression and chronicles his years after World War II as a government worker in Africa and a Peace Corps official.

Examines conditions during the Great Depression through the story of Molly, a fourteen-year-old girl who takes to riding freight trains in search of a job and food.

Contains selected primary source documents that provide information about the New Deal, a program initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in an effort to boost the economy of the United States.

Contains five short stories featuring Kit Kittredge, a young girl growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934, during the Great Depression, each with historical notes.