The Depression Years (CA. 1929-1941)
Selected materials in the Olivia Raney Local History Library Reading Room
In the Reading Room
American Heritage (see index)
North Carolina Historical Review (see index)
State Magazine (see index)
World Book Encyclopedia – 1999 edition
016.909 KOHN Dictionary of Historic Documents
902 The People’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events From
PEOPLE Prehistory to the Present
929.39 NARA 1998 Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
929.756 CAIN Guide to Private Manuscript Collections in the North Carolina State Archives(see index)
973 LIFE The Life History of the United States
Volume 10 - War, Boom and Bust
Volume 11 – New Deal and Global War
973.91 BURG The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History
973.92 AMERI 1920 American Decades
AMERI 1930
From the Closed Stacks
330.973 A Nation in Torment: the Great American Depression, 1929-1939
ELLIS
330.973 Depression Decade: From New Era Through New Deal, 1929-1941
MITCHELL
330.973 The Great Depression
SHANNON
338.5 The Great Crash, 1929
GALBRAITH
338.5 1929: the Year of the Great Crash
KLINGAMAN
338.54 The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
THOMAS
338.542 Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?
TEMIN
909.82 The Century
JENNIN
973 The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941
HISTORY
973.91 Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War
KENNEDY
973.91 The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941
MCELVA
973.91 Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
TERKEL
973.916 From the Crash to the Blitz, 1929-1939
PHILLIP
973.916 The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
SMITH
973.917 The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940
BADGER
973.917 The New Deal; the Critical Issues
GRAHAM
973.917 Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
LEUCHTENBURG
973.917 New Deal Thought
NEW
973.917 Depression, Recovery, and War, 1929-1945
ROLLINS
973.917 The Coming of the New Deal
SCHLESINGER
973.917 The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
WATKINS
975.5042 Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
TALK
975.6 Hard Times: Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933
BELL
975.609043 North Carolina and the New Deal
BADGER
In the Microforms Room
Microfilm
Raleigh News & Observer (film is indexed from 1926 to 1974)
Raleigh Times
Microfiche
Federal Writers’ Project – accompanied by a hardbound printed copy of Federal Writers’ Project: A Contents List for the Microfiche Collection
Selected Internet Resources
New Deal Network – http://newdeal.feri.org/
America From the Great Depression to World War II – Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Recommended Library of Congress Subject Headings
Depressions -- 1929
New Deal, 1933-1939
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
United States -- History – 1929-1933
United States -- History – 1933-1945
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