Introduction to American Studies : The Great Depression (1929–1941)

Editor in Chief: Karen Linkletter, California State University–Fullerton

Herbert Hoover: "The Consequences of the Proposed New Deal" (1932)
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Women and the Vote” (1933)
John S. Gambs: "United We Eat" (1934)
Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon” (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
Ellen S. Woodward: Address before the Democratic Women's Regional Conference for Southeastern States (1936)
Aubrey Williams: “The Problem of Unemployment” (1936)
Robert L. Miller: “It’s a Great Life” (1937)
Mary McLeod Bethune: "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?" (1939)

John Dos Passos: “Harlan: Working under the Gun” (1931)
Herbert Hoover: Annual Message to Congress (1931)
Walter Reuther: “Auto Workers Strike” (1933)
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
W. E. B. Du Bois: "Marxism and the Negro Problem" (1933)
Humanist Manifesto (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)
Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins (1934)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Ralph Borsodi: “President Roosevelt’s New Land and Population Policy” (1934)
Huey Long: "Every Man a King" Address (1934)
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
John P. Davis: "A Black Inventory of the New Deal" (1935)
Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" Address (1935)
Robert Clifton Weaver: "The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts" (1935)
Huey Long: "Our Growing Calamity" Address (1935)
Frances Perkins: "Social Insurance for U.S." Radio Address (1935)
Walter F. White: "U.S. Department of (White) Justice" (1935)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee (1936)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)
Richard Wright: “Blueprint for Negro Writing” (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary (1937)
Act to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps (1937)
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada (1938)
Eleanor Roosevelt: Resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution (1939)
Robert Fechner: “My Hopes for the CCC” (1939)
George Marshall: Speech to the American Historical Association on the National Organization for War (1939)
Neutrality Act (1939)
Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
Frances Perkins: "What You Really Want Is an Autopsy" (1940)
Testimony of Otis Nation to the Tolan Committee on Internal Migration (1940)
Walter Reuther: "500 Planes a Day" Speech (1940)
Robert H. Jackson: "The Federal Prosecutor" (1940)

Key Arguments: Introduction to American Studies, Unit 9
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