Edited by James Ciment
Includes: Topic Finder, thematic essays, articles, photos, Cultural Landmarks, primary documents, glossary, master bibliography
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Description: Covering the years 1929 to 1941, this comprehensive encyclopedia traces all the major political, economic, social, and cultural movements, as well as the principal events, people, and institutions, of the longest and most severe economic crisis in U.S. history. The work gives students and researchers all the essential information on how the nation confronted the Great Depression, and how this pivotal era continues to influence America’s identity, politics, and economy.
A number of new enhancements have been added to the online version, including a featured essay on the parallels and differences between the Great Depression and the recession of 2007–2009; a new thematic essay on Arts and Culture; a new Cultural Landmarks section; an updated Master Bibliography that includes dozens of notable new titles since the encyclopedia’s original publication; and Topic Finder and Browse lists.
Contents
Introduction: The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929–1941
Featured Essay: The Great Depression and the Recession of the 2000s: A Comparison
Cultural Landmarks
Primary Documents
Glossary
Master Bibliography
Abbott, Bud, and Lou Costello
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Ace, Goodman, and Jane Ace
Acuff, Roy
Adamic, Louis
Advertising and Consumption
African Americans
Agee, James
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
Agriculture
Aid to Dependent Children
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alexander, Will
America First Committee
American Federation of Labor
American Labor Party
American Newspaper Guild
Anderson, Marian
Armstrong, Louis
Arnold, Thurman
Arts and Culture
Arts, Fine
Asian Americans
Astaire, Fred, and Ginger Rogers
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Automobile Industry
Autry, Gene
Bailey, Josiah
Baldwin, Stanley
Banking
Banking Holidays
Barkley, Alben
Baruch, Bernard M.
Basie, Count
Bennett, Harry
Bennett, Richard Bedford
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bergen, Edgar
Berkeley, Busby
Berle, Adolph A., Jr.
Berlin, Irving
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Bilbo, Theodore
“Black Cabinet”
Black, Hugo
Black Legion
Blitzstein, Marc
Blum, Léon
Bogart, Humphrey
Bonus Army
Bonus Bills
Bourke-White, Margaret
Brain Trust
Brandeis, Louis
Bridges, Harry
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Broun, Heywood
Browder, Earl
Brundage, Avery
Buck, Pearl
Budget, Federal
Burns, George, and Gracie Allen
Business and Economy
Butler, Pierce
Byrnes, James F.
Cagney, James
Cain, James M.
Caldwell, Erskine
Calloway, Cab
Canada
Capone, Al
Capra, Frank
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Cardozo, Benjamin
Carnegie, Dale
Cash-and-Carry Policy
Chamberlain, Neville
Chandler, Raymond
Charity and Philanthropy
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Christian Front
Churchill, Winston
Civil Rights Section, Department of Justice
Civil Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cohen, Benjamin V.
Commodity Credit Corporation
Commonwealth Club Speech
Communist Party
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Cooper, Gary
Copland, Aaron
Corcoran, Thomas G.
Coughlin, Charles
Court-Packing Plan
Cowley, Malcolm
Crime
Daily Life
Daladier, Édouard
Dams
Dawes, Charles G.
Delta Council
Democratic Party
Dewey, Thomas E.
Didrikson, Babe
Dies, Martin, Jr.
Dietrich, Marlene
Dillinger, John
DiMaggio, Joe
Dionne Quintuplets
Disney, Walt
Dos Passos, John
Douglas, William O.
Dubinsky, David
Dust Bowl
Earhart, Amelia
Eccles, Marriner
Economy Act (1933)
Education
Einstein, Albert
Elderly, The
Election of 1930
Election of 1932
Election of 1934
Election of 1936
Election of 1938
Election of 1940
Ellington, Duke
Emergency Banking Act (1933)
Emergency Educational Program
Emergency Relief and Construction Act (1932)
Emergency Relief Appropriations Act (1935)
Empire State Building
End Poverty in California
Ethiopian War
Evans, Walker
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
Farley, James
Farm Holiday Association
Farm Security Administration
Farmer-Labor Party
Fascism, Domestic
Fascism, Italy
Father Divine
Faulkner, William
Federal Art Project
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Federal Music Project
Federal Reserve System
Federal Securities Act (1933)
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation/Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Federal Theatre Project
Federal Writers’ Project
Fields, W.C.
Film, Documentary and Newsreel
Film, Feature
Fireside Chats
Floyd, Pretty Boy
Flynn, Errol
Ford, Henry
Ford, John
Ford Motor Company
Foster, William Z.
France
Franco, Francisco
Frankfurter, Felix
Gable, Clark
Garbo, Greta
Garner, John Nance
Gehrig, Lou
General Motors
German-American Bund
Gershwin, George, and Ira Gershwin
Glass, Carter
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
Gold Standard
Goldwyn, Samuel
Good Neighbor Policy
Goodman, Benny
Government and Politics
Grant, Cary
Great Britain
Green, William
Greenberg, Hank
Group Theatre
Guthrie, Woody
Hammett, Dashiell
Harlem Riot of 1935
Hastie, William
Hatch Act (1939)
Hawks, Howard
Hays, Will H.
Hearst, William Randolph
Hemingway, Ernest
Henie, Sonja
Hepburn, Katharine
Hickok, Lorena
Hicks, Granville
Hillman, Sidney
Hindenburg Disaster
Hispanic Americans
Hitler, Adolf
Hoboes and Transients
Holiday, Billie
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Hook, Sidney
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopkins, Harry
Hopper, Hedda
House Un-American Activities Committee
Howe, Louis M.
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Howard
Hughes, Langston
Hull, Cordell
Hunger Marches
Hurston, Zora Neale
Ickes, Harold L.
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Insull, Samuel
Insurance Industry
International Affairs
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Jackson Day Speech
Japan
Johnson Act (1934)
Johnson, Hiram
Johnson, Hugh
Jones-Connally Farm Relief Act (1934)
Kennedy, Joseph P.
Keynesian Economics
King, William Lyon Mackenzie
Knox, Frank
La Follette, Philip, and Robert La Follette, Jr.
La Guardia, Fiorello H.
Labor and Unions
Landon, Alf
Lange, Dorothea
Leadbelly
League of Nations
Legion of Decency
Lemke, William
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Sinclair
Liberty League
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lindbergh Kidnapping
Lippmann, Walter
Literature
“Little Steel”
Lombard, Carole
Lombardo, Guy
London Economic Conference (1933)
Long, Huey P.
Louis, Joe
Luce, Henry R.
Lynching
MacArthur, Douglas
MacDonald, Ramsay
MacLeish, Archibald
Manchuria, Invasion of
Mao Zedong
Marcantonio, Vito
March on Washington Movement
Marshall, George C.
Marx Brothers
Mayer, Louis B.
McCormick, Robert R.
Mellon, Andrew W.
Memorial Day Massacre, 1937
Mercury Theatre
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mexico
Mining
Mitchell, Charles E.
Moley, Raymond
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.
Motion Picture Production Code/Production Code Administration
Muni, Paul
Munich Conference (1938)
Murphy, Frank
Murray, Philip
Murrow, Edward R.
Music
Mussolini, Benito
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Credit Corporation
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
National Union for Social Justice
National Urban League
National Youth Administration
Native Americans
Nazi Germany
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939)
Nelson, Baby Face
Neutrality Acts (1935–1939)
New Deal, First
New Deal, Second
New Masses
New Republic, The
Newspapers and Magazines
Niebuhr, Reinhold
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin (1937)
Norris, George W.
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act (1932)
Nye Committee
Odets, Clifford
Office of Production Management
Okies
Olson, Floyd
Olympic Games (Berlin, 1936)
Owens, Jesse
Paige, Satchel
Parker, Bonnie, and Clyde Barrow
Parsons, Louella
Pecora Investigation
Peek, George
Pepper, Claude
Perkins, Frances
Photography
Popular Front
Porter, Cole
Powell, William
President’s Organization of Unemployment Relief
Prohibition
Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935)
Public Works
Public Works Administration
Public Works of Art Project
Radio
Railroads
Randolph, A. Phillip
Rankin, John
Raskob, John J.
Rayburn, Sam
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Reed, Stanley F.
Refugees
Republican Party
Resettlement Administration
Reuther, Walter
Revenue Act (1932)
Rhineland, Reoccupation of
Rivera, Diego
Roberts, Owen J.
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Edward G.
Robinson, Joseph T.
Rockwell, Norman
Rodgers, Richard, and Lorenz Hart
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rural Electrification Administration
Ruth, Babe
Saturday Evening Post
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
Scottsboro Case (1931–1932)
Section 7, National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Securities and Exchange Commission
Service Sector
Shahn, Ben
Share Our Wealth Society
Silver Purchase Act (1934)
Silver Shirts
Sinclair, Upton
Sloan, Alfred P.
Smith Act (1940)
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Ellison D.
Smith, Gerald L.K.
Smith, Kate
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Social Security Act (1935)
Socialist Party
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1936)
Soil Erosion Service/Soil Conservation Service
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Soviet Union
Spanish Civil War
Sports
Stalin, Joseph
Steel Industry
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Steinbeck, John
Stimson, Henry L.
Stock Market
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Strikes, General
Strikes, Sit-Down
Stryker, Roy E.
Supreme Court, U.S.
Sutherland, George
Taxation
Temple, Shirley
Temporary Emergency Relief Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thomas, Norman
Three Stooges, The
Time
Townsend, Francis
Townsend Plan
Tracy, Spencer
Trade Union Unity League
Tugwell, Rexford G.
Unemployed Councils
Union Party
Unions and Union Organizing
United Automobile Workers
United Mine Workers
United States v. Butler et al (1936)
U.S. Steel Corporation
Utilities Industry
Vallée, Rudy
Van Devanter, Willis
Vidor, King
Wagner, Robert F.
Wagner-Steagall Housing Act (1937)
Wallace, Henry A.
Warren, Robert Penn
Wealth Tax Act (1935)
Weaver, Robert C.
Weismuller, Johnny
Welles, Orson
Welles, Sumner
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
West, Mae
Wheeler, Burton K.
Wheeler-Rayburn Act (1935)
White, Walter Francis
Whitney, Richard
Williams, Aubrey
Willkie, Wendell L.
Wilson, Edmund
Winchell, Walter
Wisconsin Progressive Party
Women
Wood, Grant
Works Progress Administration
World’s Fairs
World War II, Early History of
Wright, Richard
Youth
Cultural Landmarks
Art and Architecture
Literature and Journalism
Performing Arts
Primary Documents
Legislation, Veto Statements, Executive Orders, Committee Reports
Appeal to Governors for Stimulation of State Public Works, by Herbert Hoover (1929)
Veto of Amendment to World War Veterans’ Bonus Act, by Herbert Hoover (1930)
Veto of Muscle Shoals Bill, by Herbert Hoover (1931)
Outline of Program to Secure Cooperation of Bankers to Relieve Financial Difficulties, by Herbert Hoover (1931)
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Bill (1932)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
Tennessee Valley Act (1933)
Abandonment of the Gold Standard (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Social Security Acts (1935)
Reform of the Federal Judiciary (1937)
Wagner-Steagall National Housing Act (1937)
Hatch Act (1939)
Party Platforms, Political Speeches, Press Conferences
Herbert Hoover’s “Rugged Individualism” Speech, October 22,1928
Warning Against Deficit Spending, by Herbert Hoover, February 25, 1930
Lincoln’s Birthday Address, by Herbert Hoover, February 12, 1931
Democratic Party Platform, 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” Speech to Democratic Convention, July 2, 1932
Republican Party Platform, 1932
Campaign Speech by Herbert Hoover, October 31, 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 12, 1933
Speech on the National Recovery Administration, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 24, 1933
Huey Long’s “Every Man a King” Speech, February 23, 1934
Fireside Chat on Social Security Acts, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 17, 1935
Fireside Chat on Work Relief Programs, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 28, 1935
Democratic Party Platform, 1936
Republican Party Platform, 1936
Campaign Speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 14, 1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937
Comments by Eleanor Roosevelt on Married Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938
Comments by Eleanor Roosevelt on Crossing Picket Lines, January 17, 1939
Comments by Eleanor Roosevelt on Cuts in Works Progress Administration Jobs, January 31, 1939
Democratic Party Platform, 1940
Republican Party Platform, 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Third Inaugural Address, January 20, 1941
Court Rulings
United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses” (1933)
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
United States v. Butler et al. (1936)
Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
International Affairs
Herbert Hoover’s Proposal for a One-Year Moratorium on Intergovernmental Debts, June 20, 1931
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Soviet Diplomat Maksim Litvinov on U.S. Recognition of the Soviet Union, November 16, 1933
U.S. State Department Report on Nazi Germany, April 17, 1934
U.S. State Department Report on Imperial Japan, December 27, 1934
Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Good Neighbor Policy, December 1, 1936
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Quarantine” of Aggressor Nations Speech, October 5, 1937
Fireside Chat on the European War, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 3, 1939
Act of Havana on Hemispheric Defense, July 29, 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech, January 6, 1941
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941
Glossary
Master Bibliography
General Works
Web Sites
