The New Deal Stage: Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939

Of general interest:

Bentley, Joanne. Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the American Theatre. N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Flanagan, Hallie. Arena: The Story of the Federal Theatre. N.Y.: Limelight Editions, 1985.

Mathews, Jane DeHart. The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939: Plays, Relief, and Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967.

O'Connor, John and Lorraine Brown. Free, Adult, Uncensored: The Living History of the Federal Theatre Project. Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1978.

Especially for younger readers:

Hakim, Joy. War, Peace, and All That Jazz. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Stein, R. Conrad. The Great Depression. N.Y.: Children's Press, 1993.

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920

Of general interest:

Anderson, Kathie Ryckman. Dakota: The Literary Heritage of the Northern Prairie State. Grand Forks: University of North Dakota Press, 1990.

Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.

Gist, Gladys Leffler. Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921-1975. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.

Especially for younger readers:

Fradin, Dennis B. North Dakota. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1995.

MacLachlan, Patricia. What You Know First. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995.

Rolfsrud, Erling Nicolai. Story of the Peace Garden State. Farwell, MN: Lantern Books, 1990.

Sypher, Lucy Johnston. The Edge of Nowhere. N.Y.: Atheneum, 1974.