History 106 S401 - The New Deal: Home

If you just want some basic information on the New Deal, what it was, when it happened, etc., start here.

Print Sources (located on main floor of library):

Encyclopedia of American History - REF E174 E53 2003

Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch - REF JK 516 C57 2013 v.1

New York Times on the Presidency (specifically chapters on Hoover and FDR) - REF JK554 B67 2009

Electronic Sources (click link to access):

Sources relating to the President and those who backed Roosevelt's plans.

Print Sources:

America 1933 : the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal - PN 4874 H477 G65 2013

New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration -  E 806 F58 2009

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America - E 806 C5925 2009

The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - E 806 M46 2000

Electronic Sources:

Roosevelt's opposition: some conservative, some not, who felt the New Deal was either way too much or not nearly enough.

Print Sources:

Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - E 806 S52 2007 

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression - E 806 B75 1982

Who cares? : public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age (see chapter on New Deal Dissent) - HC 106 N64 2010 

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Print Sources:

The Depression and New Deal: A history in documents - E 806 M43 1999

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression - E 806 T45 1986

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How did the New Deal change society? What did it mean for the average American in the 1930s?

Print Sources:

Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal -  HQ 1236 W37 1981

Daily Life in the United States, 1920-40 - E 169 K985 2004

The hungry years : a narrative history of the Great Depression in America - E 806 W35 1999

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Was the New Deal based on sound economic principles or not? Did it have an effect on the Depression-positive or negative?

Print Sources:

Rethinking the Great Depression - HB 3717 1929 S55 2002

Economic Sources:

How was the New Deal enacted? How was it supported or challenged? What coalitions existed both favoring and opposing the plan and how well did they work together?

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Reference:

Circulating:

The New Deal: A Modern History - E 806 H557 2011

The New Dealers: Power Politics in the age of Roosevelt - E 806 S358 1993

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court - KF 8742 S495 2010

Electronic Sources:

Print Sources:

Furious improvisation : how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times - PN 2270 F43 Q56 2009

Electronic Sources:

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