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Great Depression, 1929-1939

Living Through the Great Depression

This anthology of essays presents primary and secondary documents that examine the family life, work, unemployment, education, literature, arts, and entertainment of the U.S. in the 1930s.

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The Great Depression

This book presents a historical overview of the Great Depression and a collection of cartoons revealing the responses of Americans to their nation's economic and political system.

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The Great Depression

This book is a collection of essays discussing the "Great Depression," including the causes of the stock market crash, the debilitating impact of this economic depression, and the accomplishments of t

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The Great Depression

This book traces the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise of a New Deal through speeches by Will Rogers, Henry A. Wallace, John L. Lewis, Franklin D.

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The Crash of 1929

Authors debate what caused the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed and also disagree whether a similar economic collapse can be predicted.

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Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal, 1901-1941

Christopher Collier

Emphasizes economic trends and the role of the government in regard to the economy from the beginning of the twentieth century to America's entry into World War II.

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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

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