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New York in the Thirties
Berenice Abbott
Paperback - $27.95
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, many other landmarks.
From Relief to Social Security : The Development of the New Public Welfare Service
Grace Abbott
Paperback - $68.95
Scottsboro and Its Legacy : The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice
James R. Acker
Hardcover - $107.95
The Defining Moment : FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter
Hardcover - $47.95
In this dramatic and authoritative account, the author shows how FDR used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first hundred days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.
The Defining Moment : FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter
Paperback - $26.95
In this dramatic and authoritative account, the author shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first 100 days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.
Voices of the Great Depression : The 1930's
Cinda Anderson
Paperback - $28.95
This book contains factual accounts of people's experiences during the 1930s. It can be used as a reference book about individuals' triumphs and tragedies during an unstable economic period and how they coped giving future generations a guidebook abo ...
On the Dirty Plate Trail : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps
Sanora Babb
Hardcover - $54.95
Focusing on the material conditions of everyday existence among the Dust Bowl refugees, the words and images of these two perceptive young women clearly show that, contrary to stereotype, the "Okies" were a widely diverse people, including not only S ...
Decade of Betrayal : Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
Francisco E. Balderrama
Paperback - $42.95
As the Depression engulfed the United States in the early 1930s, fear and anxiety spread that Mexicans were taking jobs and welfare benefits away from "real" Americans. Local, state, and national officials launched massive efforts to get rid of the M ...
Ernie Pyle's Southwest
Bob Bales
Hardcover - $27.95
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, when Ernie Pyle made his expeditions into the realm of solitude. The depression was gripping the na ...