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Defining Documents In American History: The Great Depression (1929-1941)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Banks and Bankers in the Spotlight




“Everybody Ought to Be Rich”




President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash




Message regarding the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act




“Their Confidence Was Justified”




FDR on Government’s Role in the Economy




Testimony of Charles Mitchell




Resolution of North Dakota Legislature Regarding the Banking Crisis




FDR—Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis




Depression and Desperation




“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”




“Women on the Breadlines”




Eleanor Roosevelt: “What Ten Million Women Want”




Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on “The Forgotten Man”




Franklin Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address




The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans




The Big Strike




United We Eat—the Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues




Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York




Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor




“An ‘Army’ Seizes the Capitol”




New Deal Solutions




President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal




Order Creating the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Program




Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley




FDR’s Address to the Bankers’ Convention at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.




Address of Joseph P. Kennedy before the Boston Chamber of Commerce 1934




FDR on Social Security




Frances Perkins on “Social Insurance”




Executive Order Establishing the Rural Electrification Administration




Indians at Work




A New Deal for American Indians




A Negro in the CCC




Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor




FDR—Address to Farmers




FDR on Drought Conditions




Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike




“I’d Rather Not Be on Relief”




Dear Mrs. Roosevelt




Voices of Dissent




Upton Sinclair on Ending Poverty in California




Two Radio “Sermons”




“Share Our Wealth” Address




“A Black Inventory of the New Deal”




Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States




Politics and Renewal




Alf Landon’s Acceptance Speech as the Republican Nominee for President




Franklin Delano Roosevelt Address at Camden, New Jersey




FDR’s Second Inaugural Address




President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession




Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938




Fair Labor Standards Act




“My Hopes for the CCC”




Social and Cultural Developments




National Archives Act




“Measuring Public Opinion”




Honoring Jesse Owens




From the Federal Writers’ Project: Cape Cod Pilot




Letter from Louise E. Jefferson to Secretary Harold Ickes regarding Marian Anderson’s Concert




World of Tomorrow: 1939 World’s Fair Essay by E.B. White




Changing Ground




Telegram from Thirty-Six American Writers to President Roosevelt concerning Nazi Germany




Albert Einstein’s Letter to President Roosevelt regarding Developments in Nuclear Science




The Century of the Common Man




Interview with a Republican: His Feelings about Government, the Economy, and the World Situation




The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund—Founding Articles of Agreement




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography