- 1890-1940:
Business Cycles - charts
- 1928-to Present:
Dow Jones Industrial Average - chart
- 1929-1942:
Unemployment, 1929-1942 - chart
-
1929-1933:
Bank Failures, 1929-1933 - chart
-
1929:
Reminiscences of the Great Depression
-
1930s?:
Excerpt from "E.W. Evans,
Brick Layer & Plasterer," an interview with
E.W. Evans
- 1930s:
“Art Within Reach” - Federal
Art Project Community Art Centers
-
1930s:
"I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" - song
lyrics by Jim Garland
-
1930s:
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - popular
song lyrics of the Depression
- 1930s:
"Dwellers in Local
Hooverville" - photograph of a 'Hooverville'
in Circleville, OH
- 1930s:
"Electrifying Housework" (photos)
- 1930s:
“It Was a Wildly Exciting
Time”- Milton Meltzer Remembers the New
Deal’s Federal Theatre Project
- 1930s:
Looking for America - The
Index of American Design
- 1930s:
"The Loveless C. C. C." - song lyrics and
audio file
- 1930s:
"The
New Deal Was a Failure" - interview with a
critic of the New Deal, a Cuban-born
optometrist. Dr. Santos
- 1930s:
Oklahoma Dust Bowl - photo
-
1930s:
Painting the American Scene -
Artists Assess the Federal Art Project
- 1930s:
Plays from the Federal Theatre Project
Anti-War Playlist
-
1930s:
Song lyrics of several union songs
- 1930s:
W. P. A. Murals
- 1930s:
W. P.A. workers (photos)
- 1930s & 1940s:
“Treated Like Slaves”-
Textile Workers Write to Washington
- 1930:
“Complete Nudity Is Never
Permitted” - The Motion Picture Production
Code
- 1930:
"Hooverville", New York City (photo)
- 1931:
Christmas Day Breadlines in New York City
(photo)
- 1931:
Near v. Minnesota
- 1932:
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Dangers in
Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics -
Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink
- 1932:
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - song
lyrics
by
E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorne
- 1932:
"The Forgotten Man" - radio speech by
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany, NY (4/7)
- 1932:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Speech at San
Francisco
- 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)
- 1932:
Powell v. Alabama
- the Scotsboro
Cases
- 1932:
Various Documents on the Bonus Army
- 1932:
Wanted information poster for the Lindbergh
Baby's Kidnapping
- 1933:
20th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
- 1933:
21st. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
- 1933:
Agricultural Adjustment Act
- 1933:
Excerpts from Huey Long's "First"
Autobiography
- 1933:
“The Farmer Learns Direct Action” - Ferner
Nuhn, Nation 136 (3/8)
- 1933:
Fireside Chat on the Bank Crisis - FDR
(3/12)
- 1933:
Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal Program
- FDR (5/7)
- 1933:
Fireside Chat on the Purpose and Foundations
of the Recovery Program - FDR (7/24)
- 1933:
Fireside Chat on the Currency Situation -
FDR (10/22)
- 1933:
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D.
Roosevelt
- 1933: Greetings to the CCC - FDR
- 1933:
“It Seems to Me” - Heywood Broun,
New
York World Telegram, (8/7)
- 1933:
Letter from Joseph C.
Grew, Ambassador to Japan, to Cordell Hull
about Japanese power
- 1933:
An Open Letter to President Roosevelt - John
Maynard Keynes
- 1933:
“The Republic Is Imperiled”- John L. Lewis
Warns of Ignoring Laboring People,
United Mine Workers Journal (3/1)
- 1933:
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
- 1933:
“This Is What the Union
Done”- song lyrics of the Story of the
United Mine Workers of America
- 1933:
TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1932 -
"National
Affairs: Franklin D. Roosevelt" (1/2 issue)
- 1933:
“To Abolish the Monroe
Doctrine” - Proclamation from Augusto César
Sandino
- 1933:
"With the Civilian Conservation Corps" -
Reprinted from American Forests:
The
Magazine of The American Forestry
Association, Washington, D. C. (July)
- 1933:
"Women and the Vote" - Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1934:
“The Ballad of Bonnie and
Clyde” - Bonnie Parker
- 1934:
The Big Strike - A Journalist
Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike
- 1934:
“A Bill of Rights for the
Indians” - John Collier Envisions an Indian
New Deal
- 1934:
Congress Investigates the
1934 San Francisco Strike
- 1934:
"End Poverty in California--The EPIC
Movement" - article by Gubernatorial
Candidate, Upton Sinclair in Literary
Digest (10/13)
- 1934:
Excerpt from "Was My Life Worth Living?" by
Emma Goldman
- 1934:
Fireside Chat on
Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and
Greater Security - FDR (9/30)
- 1934:
Hamilton v. Regents of the
University of California
- 1934:
Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" Speech in the
Senate (2/5)
- 1934:
Indian Reorganization Act
- 1934:
John L. Lewis on the N. R. A.
- 1934: Letters From the "Forgotten Man" to Mrs.
Roosevelt
- 1934:
Memorandum by the United
States Military Attaché, Berlin, 5/17/1934
[Extracts]
- 1934:
"The National Union for Social Justice" -
radio broadcast by Father Charles Coughlin
(Sunday, 11/11)
- 1934:
Townsend Plan - pamphlet by Dr. Francis
Townsend
- 1934:
Treaty Between the United States and Cuba
- 1934:
“Waitin’ on Roosevelt”-
Langston Hughes’s “Ballad of Roosevelt" in
The New Republic (11/14)
- 1934:
Wheeler-Howard (Indian Reorganization) Act
- 1935:
“1500 Doomed” - People’s
Press Reports on the Gauley Bridge Disaster
(12/7)
- 1935:
Book Relief in Mississippi -
The Survey (March)
- 1935:
"Every Man's a King" - song lyrics by
Senator Huey P. Long
- 1935:
Extemporaneous Address on the
A.A.A. to Farm Groups by FDR
- 1935:
- 1935:
Fireside Chat on the Works Relief Program -
FDR (4/28)
- 1935:
Grovey vs. Townsend
- 1935:
“How Come Huey Long? 1. Bogeyman” - Hodding
Carter in The New Republic (2/13)
- 1935:
“How Come Huey Long? 2. Or Superman?” -
Gerald K. Smith in The New Republic (2/13)
- 1935:
Huey Long's "Share the Wealth Speech" (sound
file)
- 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)
- 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"
- 1935:
National Labor Relations Act [Wagner Act]
- 1935:
Neutrality Act of 1935 (8/31)
- 1935:
“Please Help Us Mr.
President” - Black Americans Write to FDR
- 1935:
President Roosevelt's Statement Signing the
Social Security Act (8/14)
- 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:
"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)
- 1935:
TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1934 -
"Franklin
D. Roosevelt" (1/7 issue)
- 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
- 1936:
Alfred Landon, governor of KS, campaigning
for President - speech
- 1936:
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
- 1936:
Franklin Roosevelt, Address
at Chautauqua, New York, 8/14/1936 (the "I
hate war" speech)
- 1936:
"Join the March to Old Age Security" -
Social Security poster
- 1936:
Neutrality Act of 1936 (2/29)
- 1936:
Letter of Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White
detailing the First Lady's lobbying efforts
for federal action against lynchings (3/19)
- 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:
“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
- 1937:
The Explosion of the
Hindenburg (Realplayer sound file)
- 1937:
Fireside Chat on the Reorganization of the
Judiciary - FDR (3/9)
- 1937:
Labor Strikes, New York City (photos)
- 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:
"Quarantine" Speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt
(scroll down)
- 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
- 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:
Fair Labor Standards Act - overview
- 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 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 (8/29)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
Franklin Roosevelt's Destroyers for Bases
Deal
- 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:
A Mexican American Laborer
and Labor Organizer - WPA Project interview
- 1940:
The Music of Woody Guthrie (sound files)
- 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
- 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
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