great depression, 1929-1939

In 1934, in the midst of the Depression, fourteen-year-old Harry James Harmony runs away to find his father who has traveled to Chicago in search of work.

Contains 650 alphabetically arranged entries that discuss the economic depression in the United States that resulted from the stock market crash in 1929 with a focus on how the depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal impacted the nation's economy, politics, society, the arts, and related topics; and features primary documents, photographs, and a chronology.

Presents an overview of a history of the Great Depression, including the events that led up to it and the New Deal that followed, and includes chronologies, personal narratives, and documents.

In 1930 in New York City, as she worries about the Depression's effect on her family, eleven-year-old Julie takes a personal interest in the building of the Empire State Building and befriends a Mohawk boy who is working on the project.

Presents more than twenty firsthand accounts of the Great Depression, covering urban and rural aspects of the era and various programs of the New Deal, and also includes an introductory overview, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Follows the story of Lorena Hickok--personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and a successful woman news reporter--on her 1933 through 1934 journey across America, dispatched by President Roosevelt himself to find and report on the places the Great Depression had hit hardest.

Presents important people, places, and events in United States history as well as focusing on social, political, and cultural factors specific to America during the first World War and the Depression of the 1930s.

Explains the events, economic practices, and social attitudes that helped bring about the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929, it describes in vivid detail what life was like for Americans during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Days.

Covers the causes that led up to the Great Depressiont that not only affected the United States, but many other countries.