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1890-1940:
Business Cycles - charts |
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1910-1955:
Dow Jones Industrial
Average - chart |
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1928-33:
Economic Indicators of the Great Depression - chart |
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1929-1942:
Unemployment, 1929-1942 - chart |
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1929-1933:
Bank Failures, 1929-1933 - chart |
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1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression |
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1930s?:
Excerpt from "E.W. Evans, Brick Layer & Plasterer," an
interview with E.W. Evans |
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1930s:
“Art Within Reach” - Federal Art Project Community Art
Centers |
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1930s:
"I
Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" - song lyrics by Jim Garland |
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1930s:
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - popular song lyrics of the
Depression |
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1930s:
"Dwellers in Local Hooverville" - photograph of a
'Hooverville' in Circleville, OH |
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1930s:
"Electrifying Housework" (photos) |
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1930s:
Excerpts from the Federal Writers' Project Interviews with
Depression Victims |
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1930s:
“It Was a Wildly Exciting Time”- Milton Meltzer
Remembers the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project |
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1930s:
Looking for America - The Index of American Design |
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1930s:
"The Loveless C. C. C." - song lyrics and audio file |
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1930s:
"The
New Deal Was a Failure" - interview with a critic of the New Deal, a
Cuban-born optometrist. Dr. Santos |
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1930s:
Oklahoma Dust Bowl - photo |
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1930s:
Painting the American Scene - Artists Assess the Federal Art Project |
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1930s:
Plays from the Federal
Theatre Project Anti-War Playlist |
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1930s:
Song lyrics of several union songs |
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1930s:
“That
Broke Down the Ethnic Barriers”- A Steelworker Describes the Decline
of Ethnic Hostility in the 1930s (as recalled in 1974) |
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1930s:
W. P. A. Murals |
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1930s:
W. P.A. workers (photos) |
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1930s & 1940s:
“Treated Like Slaves”- Textile Workers Write to
Washington |
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1930:
“Complete Nudity Is Never Permitted” - The Motion
Picture Production Code |
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1930:
"Hooverville", New York City (photo) |
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1930:
A South Carolina Farm Girl (photo) |
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1931:
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City (photo) |
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1931:
Family in El Paso, Arkansas (photo) |
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1931:
Food Riots in Oklahoma City - New York Times (1/31) |
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1931:
Hoover Vetoes Muscle Shoals Bill |
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1931:
Near v. Minnesota |
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1932:
100,000,000 Guinea
Pigs, Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics - Arthur
Kallet and F. J. Schlink |
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1932:
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - song lyrics by
E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorne |
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1932:
Declassified FBI files on
the Bonus March |
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1932:
"The Forgotten Man" -
radio speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany, NY (4/7) |
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1932:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at San Francisco |
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1932:
Herbert Hoover, Speech at New York City
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1932:
"Hoover
Charges Roosevelt 'New Deal' Would Destroy Foundation of Nation;
22,000 Jam the Garden, 30,000 Outside" - The New York Times
(11/1) |
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1932:
Powell
v. Alabama - the Scotsboro Cases |
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1932:
"Roosevelt
Winner in Landslide! Democrats Control Wet Congress" - The New York
Times - front page with text |
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1932:
Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery
Program - Herbert Hoover |
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1932:
Various Documents on the Bonus Army
(additional documents) |
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1932:
Wanted
information poster for the Lindbergh Baby's Kidnapping |
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1932-33:
"White House Blues" - song lyrics by Charlie Poole |
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1933:
20th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1933:
21st.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1933:
Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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1933:
Excerpts from Huey
Long's "First" Autobiography |
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1933:
“The Farmer Learns
Direct Action” - Ferner Nuhn, Nation 136 (3/8) |
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1933:
Fireside Chat on the Bank Crisis - FDR (3/12) |
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1933:
Fireside Chat Outlining
the New Deal Program - FDR (5/7) |
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1933:
Fireside Chat on the
Purpose and Foundations of the Recovery Program - FDR (7/24) |
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1933:
Fireside Chat on the
Currency Situation - FDR (10/22) |
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1933:
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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1933:
Greetings to the CCC - FDR |
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1933:
“It Seems to Me” -
Heywood Broun, New York World Telegram, (8/7) |
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1933:
Letter from Joseph C. Grew, Ambassador to Japan, to
Cordell Hull about Japanese power (5/11) |
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1933:
National Industrial Recovery Act (6/16) |
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1933:
An Open Letter to
President Roosevelt - John Maynard Keynes |
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1933:
“The Republic Is
Imperiled”- John L. Lewis Warns of Ignoring Laboring People, United Mine Workers
Journal (3/1) |
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1933:
"The Return to Barter" - New Republic (1/4) |
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1933:
Tennessee Valley
Authority Act |
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1933:
“This Is What the Union Done”- song lyrics of the Story
of the United Mine Workers of America |
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1933:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1932 - "National
Affairs: Franklin D. Roosevelt" (1/2 issue) |
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1933:
“To Abolish the Monroe Doctrine” - Proclamation from
Augusto César Sandino |
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1933:
"With the Civilian
Conservation Corps" -
Reprinted from
American Forests: The Magazine of The American Forestry
Association, Washington, D. C. (July) |
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1933:
"Women and the Vote" -
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1934:
"American Liberty League" Speech by Jouett Shouse (9/4) |
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1934:
“The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” - Bonnie Parker |
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1934:
The Big Strike - A Journalist Describes the 1934 San
Francisco Strike |
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1934:
“A Bill of Rights for the Indians” - John Collier
Envisions an Indian New Deal |
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1934:
Congress Investigates the 1934 San Francisco Strike |
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1934:
"End Poverty in
California--The EPIC Movement" - article by Gubernatorial Candidate,
Upton Sinclair in Literary Digest (10/13) |
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1934:
Excerpt from "Was My Life Worth Living?" by Emma Goldman |
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1934:
Fireside Chat on
Moving Forward to
Greater Freedom and Greater Security - FDR (9/30) |
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1934:
Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California |
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1934:
Huey Long's "Share
the Wealth" Speech in the Senate (2/5) |
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1934:
Indian Reorganization Act |
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1934:
John L. Lewis on the N. R. A. |
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1934:
Letters From the "Forgotten Man" to Mrs. Roosevelt |
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1934:
Memorandum by the United States Military Attaché,
Berlin, 5/17/1934 [Extracts] |
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1934:
"The National Union
for Social Justice" - radio broadcast by Father Charles Coughlin
(Sunday, 11/11) |
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1934:
Townsend Plan -
pamphlet by Dr. Francis Townsend |
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1934:
Treaty Between the United States and Cuba |
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1934:
"Untitled
Winter Scene" - oil painting by Ceil
Rosenberg, Public Works of Art Project |
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1934:
“Waitin’ on Roosevelt”- Langston Hughes’s “Ballad of
Roosevelt" in The New Republic (11/14) |
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1934:
Wheeler-Howard (Indian
Reorganization) Act |
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1934:
"Why? The American Liberty League" - Jouett Shouse |
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1934-1936: Excerpts from Ann Marie Lowe's
Dust Bowl Diary |
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1935:
“1500 Doomed” - People’s Press Reports on the Gauley
Bridge Disaster (12/7) |
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1935:
Book Relief in Mississippi - The Survey (March) |
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1935:
"C.C.C. A Young Man's
Opportunity for Work Play Study & Health" - silkscreen poster by
Albert Bender, Chicago Federal Art Project, WPA |
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1935:
"Every
Man's a King" - song lyrics by Senator Huey P. Long |
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1935:
Extemporaneous Address on the A.A.A. to Farm Groups by
FDR |
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1935:
F. B. I. files on Huey
Long's assassination (1818 pages) |
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1935:
Fireside Chat on the
Works Relief Program - FDR (4/28) |
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1935:
Grovey vs.
Townsend |
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1935:
“How Come Huey Long?
1. Bogeyman” - Hodding Carter in The New Republic (2/13) |
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1935:
“How Come Huey Long?
2. Or Superman?” - Gerald K. Smith in The New Republic (2/13) |
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1935:
Huey Long's "Share the
Wealth Speech" (sound file) |
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1935:
Letter of Billy Gobitas to Minersville, Pennsylvania, school
directors, explaining why the young Jehovah's Witness refused
to salute the American flag (11/5) |
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1935:
Message of President Roosevelt to the Senate on the
International Court of Justice (1/16) |
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1935:
My First Days
in the White House - excerpts from Huey Long's "Second
Autobiography" |
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1935:
National Labor Relations Act [Wagner Act] |
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1935:
Neutrality Act of 1935 (8/31) |
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1935:
“Please Help Us Mr. President” - Black Americans Write
to FDR |
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1935:
President
Roosevelt's Statement Signing the Social Security Act (8/14) |
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1935:
The Real Estate Industry Lobby and Public Housing |
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1935:
“Right After That They Walked Out” - Alice Wolfson
Recalls the Origins of the CIO |
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1935:
"Social
Insurance for the U. S." - radio address by Francis Perkins (2/25) |
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1935:
Social Security Act
of 1935
(main provisions -
chart) (dates
and vote tallies) |
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1935:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1934 - &quo |
