Historic Documents of the Great Depression and New Deal
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This volume explores critical aspects of the Great Depression and New Deal through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents and even visual sources such as paintings and cartoons. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
This volume explores critical aspects of the Great Depression and New Deal through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents and even visual sources such as paintings and cartoons. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
Contents
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Herbert Hoover: Annual Message to Congress
John Dos Passos: “Harlan: Working under the Gun”
Herbert Hoover: “The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address
Walter Reuther: “Auto Workers Strike”
Emergency Banking Relief Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins
Huey Long: “Every Man a King” Address
John S. Gambs: “United We Eat”
Ralph Borsodi: “President Roosevelt’s New Land and Population Policy”
Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon”
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
National Labor Relations Act
Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”
Frances Perkins: “Social Insurance for U.S.” Radio Address
Social Security Act
Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth” Address
Huey Long: “Our Growing Calamity” Address
Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee
Ellen S. Woodward: Address before the Democratic Women’s Regional Conference for Southeastern States
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden
Aubrey Williams: “The Problem of Unemployment”
Robert L. Miller: “It’s a Great Life”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary
Act to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps
Fair Labor Standards Act
John Steinbeck: “Starvation Under the Orange Trees”
Robert Fechner: “My Hopes for the CCC”
Testimony of Otis Nation to the Tolan Committee on Internal Migration
