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Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part ... More

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In this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s ... More

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"Explains the history of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambitious program of ... More

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The wit, wisdom, courage, and candor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt are celebrated in this extraordinary book that contains the text from more than 1 ... More

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The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing ... More

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The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt ... More

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From "New York Times" editorial board member Cohen comes a revelatory account of the personal dynamics that shaped FDR's inner circle, and a ... More

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Franklin D. Roosevelt led the United States through some of the most dramatic and trying foreign and domestic episodes in its history. In Debating ... More

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Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision ... More

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Remember the year you graduated . . . got married . . . landed your dream job . . . had your first child. Celebrate those special occasions with ... More

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"With the Great Depression, the growth of a consumerist mass culture, the reshaping of government under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and intense ... More

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In the 1920s, life was good for most Americans-and great for many. Prosperity built on the new economic premise of "buy now, pay later" ruled the ... More

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A historical study of New Deal public works programs and their role in transforming the American economy, landscape, and political system.

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This book is a collection of famed journalist Ernie Pyle's writings about the South West. The roads were bad, and nonexistent in many parts of the SW ... More

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All 31 of Roosevelt's radio talk with the American people

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Explores how and why leisure became an object of such intense interest, concern, and surveillance during the Great Depression.

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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in March of 1933, the nation was near the depths of the Great Depression. Under his leadership, the "New ... More

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Verbatim reports on meetings between FDR and the National Emergency Council during the depression chronicle a wide range of issues. Originally ... More

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This book contains factual accounts of people's experiences during the 1930s. It can be used as a reference book about individuals' triumphs and ... More

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Photos and newspaper articles regarding Mule Day celebrations since 1930s in Columbia, TN -- mule breeding and trading capital of the world.

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