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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Michael A. Bernstein. The Great Depression (1987).
A detailed account of the causes and effects
of the Depression, with American manufacturing as a primary focus.
Roger Biles. A New Deal for the American People (1991).
A brief interpretative overview of the New
Deal that focuses on the impact of New Deal programs on people and emerging
patterns of public welfare.
David Kennedy. Freedom for Fear: The American People in Depression and
War, 1929-1945 (1999).
A well researched and written account of a
critical period in American history by a leading historian of the period.
Maury Klein. Rainbow’s End (2000).
A very readable account of the people and events
that led to the Great Crash and its aftermath.
Robert McElvaine. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 (1984).
An excellent overview of the origins and responses
to the Depression.
George McJimsey. The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (2000).
An effective examination of Roosevelt and how
he shaped the New Deal.
Harvard Sitkoff. A New Deal for Blacks (1978).
A review of how African Americans benefited
from and were otherwise effected by the New Deal.
Studs Turkel. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
(1970).
A classical example of how oral histories can
provide the human dimension of history.
Susan Ware. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s (1982).
An investigation of the impact of the Depression
and the New Deal on the lives of women.
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