great depression, 1929-1939

Autumn Winifred Oliver, who likes to do things in her own unique way, is disappointed to learn that she, her mother, and older sister Katie are moving in with Gramps, a stubborn old man who wants to make money off tourists, as Cades Cove is about to be turned into a national park.

Features American Girl Kit, who receives a new tree house for babysitting the horrible Pew children, but now she holds a secret that could hurt her father and friend and has to make a decision whether or not to tell the truth.

Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression.

When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.

Examines the events leading up to the 1929 Stock Market crash that resulted in the Great Depression; and explores the methods enacted by both President Hoover and later President Roosevelt to bring the country back.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.

Reprints a selection of political cartoons drawn in response to the events of the Great Depression, each with an explanation and a note about the cartoonist.

Presents a comprehensive history of the music of the 1930s and 1940s, examining the various styles of music including popular hits, swing, and Broadway tunes, and profiles great songwriters and composers such as Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, the Dorseys, Glen Miller, and others.

Volume one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Age of Roosevelt," covering the years 1919 through 1933, and discussing the Wall Street crash, the beginning of the Great Depression, and the emergence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the political stage.