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Depressions 1929 United States New Deal New Deal, 1933-1939 Social sciences United States History United States Economic conditions 1918-1945 United States History 1919-1933 United States History 1933-1945 United States Social conditions 1918-1932 United States Social conditions 1933-1945 World politics 1933-1945Kaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Ziegelman, Jane
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ZIESummary: The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SURShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLCooke, Alistair
Summary: Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5373 COOLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEEWatkins, T. H. (Tom H.)
Summary: It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. Now, in a single, comprehensive volume, The Hungry Years tells the story of the Great Depression through the eyes of the people who lived through it. Less concerned with the power brokers in Washington than with the daily struggles of ordinary people at the grassroots...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.916 WATAllen, Frederick Lewis
Summary: A survey of major changes in American life and ideas during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on economic expansion and its influence on the American standard of living, thinking, and citizenship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 ALLShlaes, Amity.
Summary: Shlaes offers a reinterpretation of the Great Depression, seeking to demonstrate how the failures of Hoover and Roosevelt to understand the prosperity of the 1920s directly contributed to massive national burdens that marginalized common citizens.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.916 SHLShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 978 SHAHenriques, Diana B.
Summary: "Taming the Street tells the epic story of the FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street for the very first time in the wake of the Crash of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, it provides a trip back to a time when the power of concentrated wealth in America arguably exceeded that of the federal government. Roosevelt's campaign to curb the excesses of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HENSummary: The Fatal Fingerprint. Cops taking man's fingerprints, expert examining them, comparing.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1934
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Summary: Goofy segment from a documentary telling the story of "A.V. Ation". Shots of wacky, poorly conceived flying machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1935
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Summary: Strange human-powered flying machine inventions that never really worked, including one that actually looks like a bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Summary: Several different strikes - auto plant, shoe factory, newspaper office and cannery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: Sit-down strike in Detroit
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: Racist: A BLACKFACE routine with four guys in blackface singing and acting out a craps game, truly offensive stereotyping
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Summary: Tough Guys: Investigation and arraignment of Bruno Hauptmann (for Lindbergh kidnapping and murder)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1934
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Summary: Beer drinkers have sit-down strike when price of beer goes up to ten cents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TERCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009