Defining Moments in American History: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Defining Moments in American History: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Editor/Author
Hillstrom, Kevin
Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: Omnigraphics, Inc.
Single-User Purchase Price:
$54.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$81.00
ISBN: 978-1-78402-623-3
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
47
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Provides a detailed account of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelts ambitious program of New Deal reforms.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- NARRATIVE OVERVIEW
- Prologue
- Chapter One: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash
- Chapter Two: The Hoover Years
- Chapter Three: Roosevelt and the First New Deal
- Chapter Four: The Dust Bowl
- Chapter Five: The Second New Deal
- Chapter Six: Wartime Prosperity
- Chapter Seven: Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal
- BIOGRAPHIES
- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) U.S. President during the Early Years of the Great Depression
- Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) New Deal Administrator and Presidential Advisor
- Hugh S.Johnson (1882-1942) Director of the New Deal's National Recovery Administration
- Frances Perkins (1880-1965) Progressive Activist and Secretary of Labor during the Great Depression
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the United States of America during the Great Depression
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) U.S. President during the Later Years of the Great Depression and World War II
- Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) Secretary of Agriculture during the Great Depression and Vice President during World War II
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- Remembering a Depression Childhood
- Herbert Hoover Predicts a Quick Recovery
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
- Praise for the Civilian Conservation Corps
- An Excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- Woody Guthrie Describes the Dust Bowl.
- Remembering “Black Sunday”
- Battling the Dust Bowl and Rural Poverty
- Roosevelt Unveils the Second New Deal
- The Saturday Evening Post Condemns Roosevelt and the New Deal
- A Rabbi's Letter of Thanks to Roosevelt
- Important People, Places, and Terms
- Chronology
- Sources for Further Study
- Photo and Illustration Credits