American History Since 1877

Chapter 24
Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal, 1933-1939

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These resources have been selected by librarians to supplement HSTY202 classes (American History from 1877) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Gale Virtual Reference Collection
• Books and eBooks in TC3 Collection
• Subject Headings
• Multimedia
• Locating Journal Articles in Databases
• Web Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Collection

TC3 students and staff have access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library which has over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This is a good place to start your research because it provides useful background information.

Books and eBooks in the TC3 Collection

• Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook. 2 vols. [E807.1.R48 C66]
• Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt: a Chronicle of the New Deal and Global War [E806 .B7]
• Eudora Welty: Photographs by Eudora Welty (1909-2001) [TR654 .W422 1989] Volume contains photographs of the rural South during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, as Welty turned the lens on the Great Depression and the New Deal, especially during her work for the Works Progress Administration. Book includes an interview with Eudora Welty. - Primary source
• Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine [E806 .M43 1984]
• Here's New England! A guide to Vacationland, written and compiled by members of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the New England States [F2.3 .F42] - Primary source (published 1939)
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 [HD8085.C53 C64 1993]
• Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties [HN79.A13 S87] - Primary source
• Scottsboro: a tragedy of the American South [KF224.S34 C3] Also available as an E-Book
• Turbulent Years; a History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 [HD8072 .B38]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on the New Deal, 1933-1939 in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• United States, Economic conditions, 1918-1945
• United States, Social conditions, 1933-1939
• United States, History, 1933-1945

Multimedia

• Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers (2008) - This film tells the story of the Depression-era photography project supervised by Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration (Films on Demand). (56 minutes).
• Great Depression [sound recording] [Media HB3717 .G7] "Outlines the causes for the stock market crash of 1929. Details what occurred, how the United States responded, and how the crash altered economic and social structures."
• Steinbeck's Losers [Filmstrip] [Media PS3537 .T3234] "Critically interprets John Steinbeck's depression novels: Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and Grapes of Wrath. Includes photographs of Steinbeck and scenes of the American depression of the 1930s."

Locating Journal Articles in Databases

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 - ""Images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection...Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II." Photographers include: Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and Ben Shahn. Primary Source.
• Berenice Abbot: Changing New York, the Complete WPA Project - From the Virtual Exhibitions of the Museum of the City of New York. "This web presentation includes all 307 images from Abbott's 1935-1939 Changing New York project, and the full text of ...Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (The New Press, 1997)."
• By the People, For the People Posters from the WPA - 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
• FDR Cartoon Archive - "Consists mainly of newspaper clippings and approximately 30,000 political cartoons dating from 1932 to 1943."
• Encyclopedia of Chicago - Short entries on Memorial Day Massacre, the Federal Art Project, Catholic Worker Movement etc.
• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Has entries on Works Projects Administration (WPA) and Mural Art in Cleveland
• Flint Sit Down Strike: Audio Gallery
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library - Has a rich collection of online documents and photographs including Photos of the Great Depression and New Deal
• Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, 1898-1992 - Includes photos of the Lincoln Memorial Concert, April 9, 1939. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Image Collections. See also Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
• New Deal Network - The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) created this "database of primary source materials-photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents)- gathered from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources."
• Notable New Yorkers: Frances Perkins - "America's first female cabinet member, Frances Perkins served as secretary of labor from 1933 until 1945, longer than any other secretary. Perkins was a committed advocate for working people, establishing the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Labor Standards Bureau. She also strengthened labor-law enforcement and was the primary architect of Social Security." Notable New Yorkers is a Columbia University project which "contains approximately 180 hours of audio and over 12,000 pages of transcript with ten prominent New Yorkers whose actions and ideas shaped not only the history of the twentieth century but the ways that we remember it."
• Oral history interview with Jacob Lawrence - 1968 Oct. 26, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. For a brief period Lawrence was in the easel division of the Federal Arts Project. Primary source.
• Studs Terkel: Conversations with America: Recordings from Hard Times - Recordings of personal interviews for Terkel's book on the Great Depression.
• The New Deal in Madison County: Public Welfare Assistance, Work Relief, and Economic Regulations in Rural New York - Joseph Evans, Colgate University, April 2005.

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