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Readings Handout #14
Dr. Rezelman

 

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
 
  1. The Great Depression
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Great Depression"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Stock Market Crash of 1929"  (2 pages)
      3. EBO: "Great Depression: Economic History: Causes of the Decline: Banking Panics and Monetary Contraction"  (2 pages)
      4. EBO: "Great Depression: Culture and Society in the Great Depression"  (1 page)
      5. American History: "Dust Bowl"  (half a page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Great Depression"  (26 pages)
      2. American History: "Black Thursday"  (1 page)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Great Depression"  (6 pages)
         
  2. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Herbert Hoover"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "Bonus March"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Election of 1932"  (1 page)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act"  (2 pages)
         
  3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
    1. main readings
      1. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Early Life"  (1 page)
      2. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Early Political Activities" 
        (1 page)
      3. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Paralysis to Presidency" 
        (3 pages)
      4. American History: "Eleanor Roosevelt"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Franklin D. Roosevelt"  (4 pages)
      2. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D."  (13 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "Roosevelt, Eleanor"  (4 pages)
      2. American History: "Marian Anderson"  (2 pages)
         
  4. New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and Reform
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Fireside Chat on the Bank Crisis (12 March 1933)"  (opening paragraph only)
      2. American History: "First Hundred Days"  (1 page)
      3. American History: "Agricultural Adjustment Administration"  (AAA)  (half a page)
      4. American History: "Civilian Conservation Corps"  (CCC)
        (1 page)
      5. American History: "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" 
        (FDIC)  (1 page)
      6. DAH: "National Industrial Recovery Act 48 Stat. 195 (1933)" 
        (1 page)
      7. American History: "National Recovery Administration"  (NRA)
        (1 page)
      8. American History: "Public Works Administration"  (half a page)
      9. American History: "Tennessee Valley Authority"  (TVA)
        (half a page)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "New Deal"  (5 pages)
      2. EBO: "New Deal"  (2 pages)
      3. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D.: The First Term: 'The Hundred Days'"  (2 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "New Deal"  (5 pages)
      2. American History: "Frances Perkins"  (2 pages)
         
  5. The "Second New Deal"
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "National Labor Relations Act"  (Wagner Act)  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Works Progress Administration"  (WPA) 
        (1 page)
      3. American History: "Civil Works Administration"  (CWA) 
        (half a page)
      4. DAH: "Social Security"  ("Before Social Security" and "Establishment of the Program" only -- 3 pages)
      5. American History: "Franklin D. Roosevelt: Court-Packing Plan (1937)"  (opening paragraph only)
      6. American History: "Charles Evans Hughes"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Roosevelt, Franklin D.: The First Term: The 'Second New Deal'"  (1 page)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Supreme Court Packing Bills"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "National Labor Relations Board"  (NLRB)  (1 page)
         
  6. The New Deal in Retrospect
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Father Coughlin"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Huey Long"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Socialism"  (4 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "United States: History: The United States from 1920 to 1945: The New Deal: An Assessment of the New Deal" 
        (half a page)

 

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