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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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