The Great Depression and The New Deal Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Sources for finding information on the Great Depression and the New Deal.
Call number areas to
browse:
HB3711-3840
HC106
E806
Keywords to search:
commercial crisis, economic depression, recession, stock market, New Deal, dust bowl, inflation, poverty, soup kitchens, WPA, stock speculation, Civilian Conservation Corps, Herbert C. Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, bread lines, Black Thursday, gold standard
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Depressions--1929--United States
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States--Economic conditions--1918-
United States--Economic policy--1933-1945
New York Stock Exchange--History
Depressions--1929.
Depressions--1929--United States
Stock Market Crash, 1929
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945

Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Rainbow's End : The Crash of 1929 (HB3717 1929 .K588 2001)
The World in Depression, 1929-1939 (HB3717 1929 .K55 1973b)
The Depression and New Deal : A History in Documents (REF E806 .M43 2000)
Hard times; An Oral History of the Great Depression (E806 .T45)
Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism (E813 .H26)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. (E806 .L475)

Library Resources (r):
America: History and Life
Arts & Humanities Search
Historical Abstracts
History Resource Center: US
OmniFile Full Text Select

Internet Resources:
New Deal Network: A Guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s - Educational site focused on the programs of FDR's New Deal. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

The Great Depression - Documenting America - Library of Congress records of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection, showing rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression.

A New Deal for the Arts - The federal program employing artists as part of the New Deal.

The Depression Papers of Herbert Hoover - Read the collection of Herbert Hoover's official papers and public statements that relate to his economic policy in the Great Depression.

The Center for New Deal Studies features resources and activities that deepen
our understanding of the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and of the
social, economic, political, and cultural history of the New Deal era in American
history.

Sliding into the Great Depression - A study of the economics of the Great Depression by J. Bradford De Long of University of California at Berkeley.

Social Security Administration - Contains oral histories, video and audio clips, documents,photographs, brief biographies and guides to the Social Security archives.