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Defining Documents in American History: The 1930s (1930–1939)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Setting Up the New Deal




President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on “The Forgotten Man”




FDR on Government's Role in the Economy




Herbert Hoover Speaks Against the New Deal




Letter From Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt




President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal




John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt




Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley




FDR on Social Security




Speech Against the President's “Court Packing” Plan




President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession




The Hatch Act




Unemployment and Relief




Bumming in California




United We Eat—The Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues




Letter From a Dust Bowl Survivor




Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor




Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike




It's a Great Life in the CCC




I'd Rather Not Be on Relief




What REA Service Means to Our Farm Home




My Hopes for the CCC




Women, Minorities, and Youth




Women on the Breadlines




Eleanor Roosevelt: What Ten MiIllion Women Want




Eleanor Roosevelt on Women and the Vote




The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans




The Hurricane of 1932 in Puerto Rico




A New Deal for American Indians




Indians at Work




A Negro in the CCC




Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York




Plea from a Scottsboro Boy




Dear Mrs. Roosevelt




Our Jobless Youth: A Warning




What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?




The Bonus Army




Herbert Hoover to Reed Smoot Regarding the Bonus Loan Bill




Attack on the Bonus Army




Veterans March to Washington




Foreign Policy




Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty




Criticism of the Neutrality Act




Neutrality Act of 1935




Defense of the Neutrality Act




Address Delivered by the Secretary of State




Winston Churchill: The Lights are Going Out in Europe




Winston Churchill: A Hush Over Europe




Charles Lindbergh: Neutrality and War




Culture, Crime, and More




The National Anthem Established: The Star Spangled Banner




What I Knew About John Dillinger




The Hindenburg Disaster




From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot




On The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast




Lou Gehrig: Farewell to Baseball




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography