The Library of Congress

The Great Depression and the 1990s
Bibliography

The following is a partial bibliography of resources helpful to the implementation of the unit:

• The American Heritage History of the 20's & 30's, by the editors of American Heritage. (Ralph K Andrist). New York, American Heritage Pub. Co. [1970].

• Biles, Roger. A New Deal for the American People. DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.

• Box-Car Bertha. Boxcar Bertha : An Autobiography as told to Ben L. Reitman with an introduction by Kathy Acker and an afterword by Roger A. Bruns. New York : AMOK Press, 1990.

• Chambers, Clarke A. The New Deal at Home and Abroad, 1929-1945. New York: Free Press, 1965.

• Conklin, Paul K. The New Deal (Second Edition). Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1975.

• Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly Brannan; essays by Lawrence W. Levine and Alan Trachtenberg. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988.

• Eliot, Thomas H. Recollections of the New Deal: When the people Mattered, edited and with an introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1992.

• Evans, Walker. American Photographs with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: New York Graphic Society Books, 1988.

• Field to Factory [sound recording]: Voices of the Great Migration, Recalling the African American Migration to the Northern Cities. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways, 1995.

• The Great Depression [video recording]. Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 1993. (seven videocassettes 57 min. each)

• Gutmann, John. The Restless Decade : John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties edited by Lew Thomas with an essay by Max Kozloff. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1984.

• The Helping Hand [video recording] produced by Janet Roach, written and created by Bill Moyers. Washington, D.C.: PBS Video, 1988.

• Kirkendall, Richard Stewart. The New Deal : The Historical Debate edited by Richard S. Kirkendall. New York : Wiley, 1973.

• Lesy, Michael. Bearing Witness : A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, 1860-1945 with a preface by Warren I. Susman. New York : Pantheon Books, 1982.

• Leuchtenburg, William Edward. The FDR Years : On Roosevelt and His Legacy. New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.

• Leuchtenburg, William Edward. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

• McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941. New York: Time Books, 1984.

• Prescott, Jerome (ed.) America at the Crossroads: Great Photographs from the Thirties. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1995.

• The New Deal : Government and the Economy adapted from the Harvard Social Studies Project by Laurel R. Singleton. Boulder, Colo. : Social Science Education Consortium, 1990.

• Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Age of Roosevelt. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

• Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.

• Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Depression. New York: Random House, 1970.

• Terkel, Studs. Hard Times [sound recording] : The Story of the Depression in the Voices of Those Who Lived It. New York : Caedmon, 1971.

• Watkins, T.H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.