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1890-1940:
Business Cycles - charts |
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1920-1940:
Dow Jones Industrial during the Great Depression - chart |
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1929-1942:
Unemployment, 1929-1942 - chart |
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1929-1933:
Bank Failures, 1929-1933 - chart |
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1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression |
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1930s?:
Excerpt from "E.W. Evans, Brick Layer & Plasterer," an
interview with E.W. Evans |
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1930s:
“Art Within Reach” - Federal Art Project Community Art
Centers |
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1930s:
"I
Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" - song lyrics by Jim Garland |
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1930s:
"Dwellers in Local Hooverville" - photograph of a
'Hooverville' in Circleville, OH |
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1930s:
"Electrifying Housework" (photos) |
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1930s:
Excerpts from the Federal Writers' Project Interviews with
Depression Victims |
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1930s:
“It Was a Wildly Exciting Time”- Milton Meltzer
Remembers the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project |
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1930s:
Looking for America - The Index of American Design |
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1930s:
"The Loveless C. C. C." - song lyrics and audio file |
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1930s:
"The
New Deal Was a Failure" - interview with a critic of the New Deal, a
Cuban-born optometrist. Dr. Santos |
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1930s:
Oklahoma Dust Bowl - photo |
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1930s:
Painting the American Scene - Artists Assess the Federal Art Project |
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1930s:
Plays from the Federal
Theatre Project Anti-War Playlist |
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1930s:
“That
Broke Down the Ethnic Barriers”- A Steelworker Describes the Decline
of Ethnic Hostility in the 1930s (as recalled in 1974) |
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1930s:
Harlem Hospital W. P. A. Murals |
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1930s & 1940s:
“Treated Like Slaves”- Textile Workers Write to
Washington |
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1930:
“Complete Nudity Is Never Permitted” - The Motion
Picture Production Code |
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1930:
"Hooverville", New York City (photo) |
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1930:
A South Carolina Farm Girl (photo) |
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1931:
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City (photo) |
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1931:
Family in El Paso, Arkansas (photo) |
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1931:
Food Riots in Oklahoma City - New York Times (1/31) |
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1931:
Hoover Vetoes Muscle Shoals Bill |
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1931:
Near v. Minnesota |
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1931:
Wickersham Commission Report on Alcohol Prohibition (1/7) |
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1932:
100,000,000 Guinea
Pigs, Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics - Arthur
Kallet and F. J. Schlink |
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1932:
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" -
YouTube video of Al Jolson singing
lyrics |
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1932:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
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1932:
"The Forgotten Man" -
radio speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany, NY (4/7) |
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1932:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at San Francisco |
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1932:
Herbert Hoover, Speech at New York City
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1932:
"Hoover
Charges Roosevelt 'New Deal' Would Destroy Foundation of Nation;
22,000 Jam the Garden, 30,000 Outside" - The New York Times
(11/1) |
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1932:
Powell
v. Alabama - the Scottsboro Cases |
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1932: "Roosevelt
Winner in Landslide! Democrats Control Wet Congress" - The New York
Times - front page with text |
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1932:
Special Message to the Congress on the Economic Recovery
Program - Herbert Hoover |
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1932:
Various Documents on the Bonus Army
(additional documents) |
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1932:
Wanted
information poster for the Lindbergh Baby's Kidnapping |
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1932-33:
"White House Blues" - song lyrics by Charlie Poole |
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1933-1941:
Fireside Chats and Speeches of FDR - several dozen documents (some
audio files as well) |
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1933-1944:
FDR's "Fireside Chats" |
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1933:
20th.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1933:
21st.
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1933:
After Capitalism...What? - Reinhold Niebuhr |
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1933:
Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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1933:
"Devaluate the Dollar Now" - editorial in
The Nation (3/15) |
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1933:
Excerpts from Huey
Long's "First" Autobiography |
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1933:
“The Farmer Learns
Direct Action” - Ferner Nuhn,The Nation 136 (3/8) |
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1933:
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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1933:
"The Great Relief Congress" - editorial celebrating the First
Hundred Days of the new administration in The Chicago Tribune
(6/16) |
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1933:
Greetings to the CCC - FDR |
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1933:
“It Seems to Me” -
Heywood Broun, New York World Telegram, (8/7) |
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1933:
Letter from Joseph C. Grew, Ambassador to Japan, to
Cordell Hull about Japanese power (5/11) |
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1933:
"Mr. Roosevelt, So Far" - editorial in
The Nation (6/28) |
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1933:
National Industrial Recovery Act (6/16) |
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1933:
An Open Letter to
President Roosevelt - John Maynard Keynes |
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1933:
"The Paramount Issue" - editorial praising FDR's leadership in
The Chicago Tribune (3/11) |
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1933:
“The Republic Is
Imperiled”- John L. Lewis Warns of Ignoring Laboring People, United Mine Workers
Journal (3/1) |
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1933:
"The Return to Barter" -
New Republic (1/4) |
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1933:
Tennessee Valley
Authority Act |
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1933:
“This Is What the Union Done”- song lyrics of the Story
of the United Mine Workers of America |
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1933:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1932 - "National
Affairs: Franklin D. Roosevelt" (1/2 issue) |
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1933:
“To Abolish the Monroe Doctrine” - Proclamation from
Augusto César Sandino |
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1933:
"With the Civilian
Conservation Corps" -
Reprinted from
American Forests: The Magazine of The American Forestry
Association, Washington, D. C. (July) |
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1933:
"Women and the Vote" -
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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1934:
“The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” - Bonnie Parker |
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1934:
The Big Strike - A Journalist Describes the 1934 San
Francisco Strike |
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1934:
“A Bill of Rights for the Indians” - John Collier
Envisions an Indian New Deal |
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1934:
Congress Investigates the 1934 San Francisco Strike |
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|
1934:
"End Poverty in
California--The EPIC Movement" - article by Gubernatorial Candidate,
Upton Sinclair in Literary Digest (10/13) |
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1934:
Excerpt from "Was My Life Worth Living?" by Emma Goldman |
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1934:
Fireside Chat on
Moving Forward to
Greater Freedom and Greater Security - FDR (9/30) |
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1934:
Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California |
|
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1934:
Indian Reorganization [or Wheeler-Howard] Act |
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1934:
Letters From the "Forgotten Man" to Mrs. Roosevelt |
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1934:
Memorandum by the United States Military Attaché,
Berlin, 5/17/1934 [Extracts] |
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1934:
"The National Union
for Social Justice" - radio broadcast by Father Charles Coughlin
(Sunday, 11/11) |
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1934:
Townsend Plan -
pamphlet by Dr. Francis Townsend |
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1934:
Treaty Between the United States and Cuba (5/29) |
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1934:
"Untitled Winter
Scene" - oil painting by Ceil Rosenberg,
Public Works of Art Project |
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1934:
“Waitin’ on Roosevelt”- Langston Hughes’s “Ballad of
Roosevelt" in The New Republic (11/14) |
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1934:
"Why? The American Liberty League" - Jouett Shouse |
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1935:
“1500 Doomed” - People’s Press Reports on the Gauley
Bridge Disaster (12/7) |
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1935:
Book Relief in Mississippi - The Survey (March) |
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1935:
"C.C.C. A Young Man's
Opportunity for Work Play Study & Health" - silkscreen poster by
Albert Bender, Chicago Federal Art Project, WPA |
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1935:
"Every
Man's a King" - song lyrics by Senator Huey P. Long |
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1935:
Extemporaneous Address on the A.A.A. to Farm Groups by FDR (5/14) |
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1935:
F. B. I. files on Huey
Long's assassination (1818 pages) |
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1935:
Fireside Chat on the
Works Relief Program - FDR (4/28) |
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1935:
Grovey vs.
Townsend |
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1935:
Huey Long's "Share
the Wealth" Speech in the Senate (2/5) |
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1935:
“How Come Huey Long?
1. Bogeyman” - Hodding Carter in The New Republic (2/13) |
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1935:
“How Come Huey Long?
2. Or Superman?” - Gerald K. Smith in The New Republic (2/13) |
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1935:
Huey Long's "Share the
Wealth Speech" |
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1935:
Letter of Billy Gobitas to Minersville, Pennsylvania, school
directors, explaining why the young Jehovah's Witness refused
to salute the American flag (11/5) |
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1935:
Message of President Roosevelt to the Senate on the
International Court of Justice (1/16) |
|
|
1935:
My First Days
in the White House - excerpts from Huey Long's "Second
Autobiography" |
|
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1935:
National Labor Relations Act [Wagner Act] |
|
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1935:
Neutrality Act of 1935 (8/31) |
|
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1935:
“Please Help Us Mr. President” - Black Americans Write
to FDR |
|
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1935:
President
Roosevelt's Statement Signing the Social Security Act (8/14) |
|
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1935:
The Real Estate Industry Lobby and Public Housing |
|
|
1935:
“Right After That They Walked Out” - Alice Wolfson
Recalls the Origins of the CIO |
|
|
1935:
Signing of the Social Security Act photo |
|
|
1935:
"Social
Insurance for the U. S." - radio address by Francis Perkins (2/25) |
|
|
1935:
Social Security Act
of 1935
(main provisions -
chart) (dates
and vote tallies) |
|
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1935:
W. P. A. Theater Group (photo) |
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1935:
“We Have Got a Good Friend in John Collier” - A Taos
Pueblo Tries to Sell the Indian New Deal |
|
|
1935-39:
"History of Southern
Illinois" - gouache painting by Paul Kelpe,
Illinois Federal Art Project, WPA |
|
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1936:
Alfred Landon, governor of KS, campaigning for President - speech |
|
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1936:
Carter v. Carter Coal Co. |
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|
1936:
Charles E. Coughlin, "The Radio Priest", declares "Roosevelt and Ruin"
- national radio broadcast (6/19) |
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|
1936:
The Cradle Will Rock original script |
|
|
1936:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1936:
Franklin Roosevelt, Address at Chautauqua, New York,
8/14/1936 (the "I hate war" speech)
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|
1936:
"Jane
Addams Memorial" - tempera painting on paper
by Mitchell Siporin, Illinois Federal Art Project, WPA |
|
|
1936:
"Join the March to
Old Age Security" - Social Security poster
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|
1936:
"Migrant Mom" - photo by Dorothea Lange |
|
|
1936:
Neutrality Act of 1936 (2/29) |
|
|
1936:
The Nye Commission Report (2/24) |
|
|
1936:
Letter of Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First
Lady's lobbying efforts for federal action against lynchings (3/19) |
|
|
1936:
Radio Address to the CCC by FDR |
|
|
1936:
"Roosevelt
Sweeps the Nation; His Electoral Vote Exceeds 500" - The New York
Times - front page with text (11/4) |
|
|
1936:
Rural Electrification Act |
|
|
1936:
“The (Second) Greatest Teacher of All Time” - Father
Coughlin’s Followers Fight Back |
|
|
1936:
"Security in Your
Old Age" - Information Service Circular No. 9 from the U. S.
Government Printing Office |
|
|
1936:
"Shall We Plow under the Supreme Court?" Speech of Jouett Shouse
before the Bondmen's Club, Chicago, IL (2/3) |
|
|
1936:
The Supreme
Court and the Constitution by Robert E. Cushman (Public Affairs
Pamphlet, No. 7, 1936) pp. 1-36 |
|
|
1936:
"The Supreme Court
Swings the Ax" - The Nation (1/15) |
|
|
1936:
A Third Party - Father Charles E. Coughlin |
|
|
1936:
“What He Has Done Is Sickening to Contemplate” -
Catholic Liberal John Ryan Denounces Father Charles Coughlin |
|
|
1936:
“We Are Americans!”- The Homestead Workers Issue a
Declaration of Independence |
|
|
1936:
Workers' Handbook (WPA) |
|
|
1937:
The Explosion of the
Hindenburg (Realplayer sound file) |
|
|
1937:
Fireside Chat on the
Reorganization of the Judiciary - FDR (3/9) |
|
|
1937:
"The Future of the Supreme Court" - editorial in
The Chicago
Tribune (2/7) |
|
|
1937:
“The Man . . . Died on My Lap” - One Women Recalls the
Memorial Day Massacre in South Chicago |
|
|
1937:
“Must a Fellow Wait to Die” - Workers Write to Frances
Perkins |
|
|
1937:
The Nanking Massacre - New York Times reporter's
observations |
|
|
1937:
Neutrality Act of 1937 |
|
|
1937:
"Purging the Supreme Court" - editorial in
The Nation (2/13) |
|
|
1937:
"Quarantine"
Speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
|
1937:
"Roosevelt Goes Too
Far" - Dorothy Thompson,
Washington Star (2/10) |
|
|
1937:
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
|
1937:
“Susie Steno Discovers
the Union,” Ledger (June) |
|
|
1937:
"Twenty Years Ago" -
sermon by Fr. Coughlin |
|
|
1937:
Various Documents on FDR and Court Packing
(additional documents) |
|
|
1937:
“We Stand Defeated
America”- John Dos Passos in
“The Big Money,” USA |
|
|
1937:
"Years
of Dust" - photolithograph by Ben Shahn,
Resettlement Administration |
|
|
1937:
“The Yeast which Makes the Bread Rise" - Hallie
Flanagan on Drama as Politics |
|
|
1938:
Annual Report of the
Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 |
|
|
1938: "Dust
Can't Kill Me" - song lyrics by Woody Guthrie |
|
|
1938:
"Dust Bowl Refugee" - song lyrics by Woody Guthrie |
|
|
1938:
Fair Labor Standards Act |
|
|
1938:
The Federal Theatre Project brief
of the project presented to the Committee on Patents of the House of
Representatives |
|
|
1938:
Franklin Roosevelt, Message to the Congress
recommending increased armament for national defense (1/28) |
|
|
1938:
Frederick
Savage Blames Labor Unions for the Great Depression (WPA
Project interview) |
|
|
1938:
“We Don’t Know What Will Happen to Our People” - A Mill
Worker Describes Effects of Layoffs on a Virginia Mill Town |
|
|
1938:
"I'd Rather Not be on Relief" - song lyrics by Lester Hunter |
|
|
1938:
“The Laundry Loses Business to Its Customers” - An
Appeal to Exempt Personal Service Businesses from Federal Minimum Wage
and Maximum Hours Legislation (as recalled in 1949) |
|
|
1938:
Letter of
Hugh R. Wilson, Ambassador to Germany to President
Roosevelt |
|
|
1938:
Letter to President Roosevelt from a Mr. Griefer, a Spring Valley, NY
farmer |
|
|
1938:
Losing the Business - The Donners Recall the Great
Depression |
|
|
1938:
Munich Pact (9/29) |
|
|
1938:
Nobel Lecture ("The Chinese
Novel") - Pearl S. Buck, American Writer/Nobel Laureate, Stockholm,
Sweden (12/12) |
|
|
1938:
"Peace in Our Time" Statement Made by British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain (9/30) |
|
|
1938:
President Roosevelt to the Chancellor of Germany
(Hitler), [Telegram] (9/27) |
|
|
1938:
"The
Riveter" - tempera painting on paperboard by
Ben Shahn, Treasury Section of Fine Arts |
|
|
1938:
"Roosevelt Is a 'Damned Good Man'" - interview with
Charles Fusco, an Italian-born munitions worker |
|
|
1938:
Statement by the Secretary of State Hull to Prime
Minister Chamberlain's Statement (9/30) |
|
|
1938:
Suspicion of Subversion - Congressional Conservatives
Attack the Federal Theater Project |
|
|
1938:
To Save China - “New York Hand Laundry Alliance
Intensifies Anti-Japanese Work” |
|
|
1938:
To Save Ourselves - “Anti-Japanese Activities of the
Members of the CHLA” |
|
|
1938-39:
Bill Knox Advises Young Workers About Unions |
|
|
1939:
"Civil Liberties in American Colonies," By the American
Civil Liberties Union (New York: American Civil Liberties Union (Feb.) |
|
|
1939:
Fireside Chat on the
European War - FDR (9/3) |
|
|
1939:
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Moscow (8/23) |
|
|
1939:
Hague v CIO -- issue of
restricting speech in the traditional public forum |
|
|
1939:
"I
'Ain't No Midwife" - Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby |
|
|
1939:
Jim Cole, African American Packinghouse Worker - WPA
Project interview |
|
|
1939:
Letter from Albert Einstein to FDR About Nuclear Bombs |
|
|
1939:
Letter of
Resignation to the D. A. R. from Eleanor Roosevelt (2/25) |
|
|
1939:
Miss Henrietta C. Dozier, Architect
|
|
|
1939:
"My Ups and Downs" - an interview with Kent Shorrow, a Negro in
Georgia |
|
|
1939:
Neutrality Act of 1939 (11/4) |
|
|
1939:
President Roosevelt to the Chancellor of Germany
(Hitler) [Telegram] (8/24) |
|
|
1939:
President Roosevelt to the Chancellor of Germany
(Hitler), [Telegram] (8/25) |
|
|
1939:
Radio Address Delivered by President Roosevelt From
Washington (9/3) |
|
|
1939:
"Roll Out the Pickets" - song lyrics of a cotton strike against the
Associated Farmers |
|
|
1939:
United States v. Miller |
|
|
1939:
The Works Progress Administration -
Myron Buxton, a WPA white-collar worker, discusses perceptions of the
WPA and what it has meant to him |
|
|
1940:
Business Reports by Alta Gwinn
Saunders and Chester Reed Anderson |
|
|
1940:
"Children in a
democracy. A migratory family living in a trailer in an open field. No
sanitation, no water. They come from Amarillo, Texas." - photo by
Dorothea Lange, Bureau of Agricultural Economics (Nov.)
|
|
|
1940:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1940:
Franklin Roosevelt's Destroyers for Bases Deal (9/3) |
|
|
1940:
Fireside Chat on
National Defense - FDR (5/26) |
|
|
1940:
Fireside Chat on
National Security - FDR (9/29) |
|
|
1940:
"Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" - song lyrics by Gussie War Arvin |
|
|
1940:
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (8/1) |
|
|
1940:
Italian Feed - Mari Tomasi (9/21) |
|
|
1940:
Smith Act |
|
|
1940:
"Some More Greenback Dollars" - song lyrics |
|
|
1940:
"Suffrage in the South Part I: The Poll Tax" -
Survey Graphic (1/1) |
|
|
1940:
"Suffrage in the South, Part II: The One Party System"
- Survey Graphic (3/1) |
|
|
1940:
"Why We Come to Californy" - song lyrics by Flora Robertson Shafter |
|
|
1941:
"Ballad of Booker T." - poem by Langston Hughes |
|
|
1941:
Fireside Chat
Proclaiming an Unlimited National Emergency - FDR (5/27) |
|
|
1941:
Fireside Chat on
Maintaining Freedom of the Seas (9/11) |
|
|
1942:
The
Changing Character of Lynching - Jessie Daniel Ames |
|
|
1943:
Abolish Jim Crow! - Eleanor Roosevelt in New Threshold
(Aug.) |
|
|
1943:
"Union
Dues,” as recorded by George Korson, Coal Dust on the Fiddle |
