THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
General Books
Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years (1989)
Stephen W. Baskerville and Ralph Willett (eds.), Nothing Else to Fear: New Perspectives on America in
the 1930s (1985)
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression (1983)
-, End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)
Russell D. Buhite and David W. Levy (eds.), FDR's Fireside Chats (1992)
William Chafe, ed., Achievement of American Liberalism: the New Deal and Its Legacies (2003)
Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: the Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
(1997)
Colin Gordon (ed.), Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 (1999)
James Noble Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migrants and Okie Culture in California
(1989)
David E. Hamilton, From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt,
1928-1933 (1991)
David E. Hamilton, ed., The New Deal (1998)
Jonathan Harris, Federal Art and National Culture: the Politics of Identity in New Deal America (1995)
John B. Kirby, The New Deal Era and Blacks; a Study of Black and White Race Thought, 1933-1945
(1971)
William Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (1963)
Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (1984)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Coming of the New Deal (1959)
William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties American (1973)
Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970)
Susan Ware, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (1981)
Nancy Weiss, Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (1983)
Further Reading
Frederick Lewis Allen, Since Yesterday (1940)
John F. Bauman and Thomas Coode, In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the
Agony of the American People (1988)
Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, You Have Seen Their Faces (1937)
Roger Daniels, Bonus March (1971)
Walker Evans and James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Walter T. Howard, Lynchings: Extralegal Violence in Florida During the 1930s (1995)
Howard Kester, Revolt Among the Sharecroppers (1969, 1997)
Charles Kindleberger, World in Depression, 1929-1939 (1986)
Dorothea Lange, American Exodus: a Record of Human Erosion (1939, 1975)
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Union Rights and the California Food
Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
Rhoda Levine, Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State
(1988)
Robert S. McElvaine (ed.), Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the 'Forgotten Man'
(1983)
Carol J, Martin, Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s (1994)
Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (1939)
Giuliana Muscio, Hollywood's New Deal (1998)
Frances Perkins, People At Work (1934)
Claire Potter, War on Crime: Gangsters, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture (1998)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal (1994)
Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust (1939, 1989)
Articles
Edwin Amenta, Drew Halfmann, "Wage Wars: Institutional Politics, WPA Wages, and the Struggle for
US Social Policy," ASR, 65:4 (August 2000): 506-28.
Roger Biles, "The Urban South in the Great Depression," Journal of Southern History, 56: 1 (Feb.,
1990): 71-100
William W. Bremer, "Along the 'American Way': The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the
Unemployed," Journal of American History, 62: 3 (Dec., 1975): 636-652
Lewis A. Erenberg, "From New York to Middletown: Repeal and the Legitimization of Nightlife in the
Great Depression," AQ 38:5 (winter 1986): 761-78
Michael Goldfield, "Worker Insurgency, Radical Organization and New Deal Labor Legislation,"
American Political Science Review 83:4 (December 1989): 1257-82
Alonzo Hamby, "The New Deal: Avenues for Reconsideration," Polity 31:4 (summer 1999): 665-81.
Mark Leff, " 'Taxing the forgotten man': The Politics of Social Security Finance in the New Deal,"
Journal of American History, 70 (Sept 1983): 359-81
Margaret T. McFadden, "'America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date': Gender, Race, and the Cultural
Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932-46," JAH 80:1 (June 1993):113-34.
Kathleen Moran and Michael Rogin, " 'What's the Matter with Capra?': Sullivan's Travels and the
Popular Front," Representations, 71 (summer 2000): 106-34.
Rita Werner Gordon, "The Change in the Political Alignment of Chicago's Negroes During the New
Deal," JAH 56:3 (Dec. 1969): 584-603.
Jason Scott Smith, "New Deal Public Works at War: The New Deal and Japanese American
Internment," PHR, 72: 1 (February 2003): 63-92.
William A. Sundstrom, "Last Hired, First Fired? Unemployment and Urban Black Workers During the
Great Depression," Journal of Economic History, 52: 2 (Jun., 1992): 415-429
Warren C. Whatley, "Labor for the Picking: The New Deal in the South," Journal of Economic History,
43: 4 (Dec., 1983): 905-929