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Aaron, Daniel, Richard Hofstadter and William Miller. The United States: The History of a Republic. 2d ed. rev., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967.


American Art of the 20th Century: Hunter, Sam and Jacobus, John. Englewood Cliffs, NJ and New York: Prentice-Hall Inc. and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1973.Children of the Depression: Kathleen Thompson and Hilary MacAustin, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Reviewed for NEWDEAL by Catherine McNicol Stock, CMSLebere@aol.com , Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.


***American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA When FDR Put the Nation to Work. Taylor, Nick. Bantam Book, 2008. 630 pp.


Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience: Wunder, John R. et al. University Press of Colorado, 1999 (likely unavailable, new).


A Nation in Torment: Ellis, Edward Robb. Kodansha America, Inc. 1995 (not currently available). 


A New Deal for America: Proceedings from a National Conference on New Deal Communities. Edited by Bryan Ward. Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.1995. 


A New Deal For The Arts: Bustard, Bruce I. University of Washington Press, 1997. 


A Southern Illinois Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs  1936-1943. (Shawnee Books), Russell, Herbert K. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. 


Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South 1830-1930. Green, Elna C. University of Georgia Press, 1999. 


Building the Future: Preserving and Enhancing the Matanuska Colony Historic District. Pocket Guide to Developing Property within the Matanuska Colony Historic District: Matanuska-Susitna Borough Cultural Resources, Palmer, Alaska. Fall 2005.


Business, Bureaucracy, and the Bourgeoisie: The New Deal Legacy. Elizabeth Sanders, The Political Economy of Public Policy, eds. Alan Stone and Edward J. Harpham (Beverly Hills, etc.: Sage, 1982; vol. 10, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy).
Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: by James T. Patterson. Greenwood Publishing Group (1981)


Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Sullivan, Patricia. University of North Carolina, 1996. 


Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. Cohen, Robert, ed. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 


Degler, Carl N., ed. 1970. The New Deal. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1970.


Derber, Milton. "The New Deal and Labor." In The New Deal: The National Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.


Designing A New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning  1890-1943. Reagan, Patrick D. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 


Downward Occupational Mobility During the Great Depression: Urban Black and White Working Women. Labor History, 29:2 (Spring 1988), pgs. 135-172. 


Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism and the Index of American Design. University of North Carolina Press. Author not cited. ISBN # 0807 827 940.


Encyclopedia Great Depression and New Deal: 2 vols. James Ciment, Editor. N.School University. ISBN 07656-8033-5


Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater. Melosh, Barbara. Smithsonian Institution, 1991. 


Everhart, William C. The National Park Service. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.


FDR and The New Deal: Leuchtenberg, William. Harper and Row, 1963. 


Federal Relief Administration & The Arts: McDonald, William F. Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH, 1969

 

Franklin and Lucy: Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in Roosevelt’s Life, by Persico, Joseph E., Random House


Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War. 1925-1945 by David M. Kennedy. Oxford University Press (2001)


Government and Art: A Guide to Sources in the Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution, 1995. ISBN # 1 880193 07 8 (unavailable, new) 


Happy Days Are Here Again: A Short Interpretive History of the New Deal. Wolfskill, George, Dryden Press, Windsdale, ILL. 1974.


Hard Work and a Good Deal. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota. Sommer, Barbara. Minnesota Historical Society and Northern. Minnesota’s Chapter 119. 2008. 205 pp.


Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero. Brash Reformer: Hopkins, June. St. Martin's Press, 1999. 


Hemingway: the 1930's: Reynolds, Michael. W.W. Norton & Company  1998. Chapter Ten, "The Stricken Field", pgs. 256-7, for an appreciation of Martha Gellhorn during the Depression and New Deal. 


Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in  Town and Country.  Bernard Sternsher, T.H. Watkins


Hunter, Robert F. "Virginia and the New Deal." In The New Deal: The State Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 2. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.


Images of American Radicalism: Sullivan, Edmund B., Christopher Publishing House. Hanover, MA 02339, 1999.


Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Brechin, Gray. Unv. of California Press. Berkeley. 2006. 402 pp.


Keller, Richard C. "Pennsylvania's Little New Deal." In The New Deal: The State Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 2. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.


Life Was Meant to be Lived: A Centenary Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lash, Joseph P. W.W. Norton & Co. 1984. 


Long Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy and the New Deal. Robert Leighninger, Jr., University of South Carolina Press, 2007. 304 pgs., 72 illus. $24.95 This is a reassessment of the public works initiative that built America's infrastructure. Note: Leighninger is also a NNDPA Board Member.

 

Leaning on a Legacy: The WPA in Oklahoma.  Barton, Marjorie. Edited by Bob Burke. Oklahoma Horizon Series. 2008. ISBN 978-885596-69-7. 126pp


Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago. 1919-1939. Lizabeth Cohen


McDermott, John J., ed. The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition. New York: Random House, 1967.


Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford, Gail. University of Chicago Press, 1996. 


Nature’s New Deal—CCC and the Roots of the Environmental Movement.  Maher, Neal. Oxford University Press.


New Deal in the Urban South: Smith, Douglas L. Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 


New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-40: Badger, Anthony J. This book appeared in 1989. Evidently, Badger is British, and I've found citations of publication by Palgrave Macmillan, which is English.


Old Fields, New Corn: The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Lawyer. Griswold, Erwin N. West Publishing Company, 1992. 


Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal. Bernstein, David E. Duke University Press, 2001.


Parks and Recreational Structures: Administration and Basic Service Facilities, Recreational and Cultural Facilities. Good, Albert H. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 (also cited is a Graybooks Publishers reprint of 1990 - whether the same book isn't known, but the Graybooks edition was mentioned by the recommending source).

 
Pie Town Woman: The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader. Myers, Joan; Univ. of NM Press, Albuquerque, 2001.


Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Roosevelt Versus the Recovery 1933-1938. Best, Gary Dean. Praeger Publishers, 1991. ISBN NO. 0275 935 248 


Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority  1933-1990. Hargrove, Erwin C. reprint by University of Tennessee Press, 2001.


Prosperity, Depression and War, 1920-1945: Brinkley, Alan. American Historial Association, 1997. 


Rauch, Basil. The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., 1944.


Recording A Vanishing Legacy: The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico 1933-Today. New Mexico Architectural Foundation and the American Institute of Architects (Albuquerque chapter) in association with New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, 2001. 


Recording Historic Buildings-1970: The Historic Buildings Survey. Compiled by Harley J. McKee. U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service.

 
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. Errol Lincoln Uys. TV Books, L.L.C. 1619 Broadway, Ninth Floor, New York, NY 10019 or 1999, 302 pp.


Salmond, John A. The Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1967.


Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929-September 3, 1939. Allen, Frederick Lewis. HarperCollins, reissue 1986. ISBN #0060 913 223. 


South Carolina and the New Deal: by Jack Irby Hays, Jr. University of South Carolina Press (2001)


Taking the University to the People: 75 Years of Cooperative Extension. Rasmussen, Wayne David. Iowa State University Press, 1989.

 
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (The Working Class in American History). Irons, Janet Christine. University of Illinois Press, 2000. 


Texans, Politics and the New Deal: Patenaude, Lionel V. Garland Publishers, 1983


Terkel, Studs.  Hard Times:  An Oral History of the Great Depression.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 1970.


The Coming of the New Deal: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Boston, 1959.


The Crisis of the Old Order: Schlesinger, Arthur M, Jr. Boston, 1957.


The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: AMERICAN-MADE: When FDR Put the Nation to Work. Taylor, Nick. Bantam Dell Books, NY. 640 pp. ISBN: 978-0-553-80235-1


The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.  Shlaes, Amity, Harper Collins, NY., 2007. 464 pp.

The Great Crash: 1929, Galbraith, John Kenneth. Mariner Books, 1997.


The Great Depression: America in the 1930's.


The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Eric Rauchway. Oxford University Press, NY, 150pp. Corinthfilms.com Classic DVD Store-Classic Movies, Vintage Television Series $79.95


The Great Depression: An Inquiry Into the Causes, Course and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the 1930's, as seen by a contemporary.  Garraty, John A. Harcourt, 1986.


The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery & Economic Change in America. 1929-1939 by Michael Andres Bernstein. Cambridge University Press (1989)


The Great Wave: Price Revolution and the Rhythm of History.  Fischer, David Hackett. Oxford University Press, 1996. 


The Hungry Years: Watkins, T.H. Henry Holt, 1999. 


The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: Schrader, Robert Fay; Univ. of NM Press, Albuquerque, 1978.


The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak. Edited by Katie Louchheim with historical notes by Jonathan Dembo. Harvard University Press. 1983. 


National Education Association. The Civilian Conservation Corps, The National Youth Administration and the Public Schools. Washington: National Education Association, 1941.


The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South Since 1930. Green, Elna C., ed. University of Georgia, 2003


The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: by Ellis W. Hawley. Fordham University Press (1995)


The New Deal in Arizona: Collins, William S. Arizona State Parks Board, 1999.


The New Deal in New Mexico: Wm. Pickens. Thesis—university unknown


The New Deal, What Was It?: Keller, Morton; Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963

The New Deal: 2nd edition. Conkin, Paul K;. Crowell, New York. 1975


The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration. Flynn, Kathryn, Gibbs-Smith Publishers. Utah. 168 pp. ISBN: 13:978-1-4236-0292-7.

The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. Edsforth, Ronald. Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 


The New Deal: Chase, Stuart; The Macmillan Company, New York. 1932


The New Deal: Hope for the Nation. Perspectives on History Series.  Edited by Cheryl Edwards. Discovery Enterprises, Ltd. 1995. 


The New Dealers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934.


The New Dealers: Power and Politics in the Age of Roosevelt. by Jordan A. Schwarz. Vintage Books (1994)


The Pentagon: A History:The Untold Story of the Race to Build the Pentagon-And to Restore It Sixty Years Later. Vogel, Steve.


The Perils of Prosperity: Leuchtenberg, William and Boorstin, Daniel J. University of Chicago, 1993. 


The Politics of Upheaval: Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Boston, 1960.


The Presidency of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt: McJimsey, George. University of Kansas Press, 2000. 


The Raw Deal: How Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal. Conosan, Joe. Polipoint Press 2005, 294 pp.


The Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South: Maharige, Dale. Williamson, Michael; and Mydans, Car. Pantheon Books, 1989.


The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980: Fraser, Steve et al. Princeton University Press, 1990


The Roosevelt Myth:  Flynn, John T. Fox & Wilkes, reprint edition 1998 ISBN # 0930 073 282. 


The Roosevelt Presence: Maney, Patrick J. University of California Press, 1998. 


The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever. Sustein, Cass R., Basic Books, New York. 414 pp.


The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling. Holli, Melvin G. Palgrave MacMillan/St. Martin's Press, 2002. 


The Worst Hard Time: Timothy Eagan. Houghton Mifflin. 2006. Farm families that stayed behind and persevered through the Dust Bowl.


The WPA and Federal Relief Policy: Howard, Donald S. Russell Sage Foundation, 1943. Reprint by Da Capo Press, date not cited. The book seems to be unavailable new.--prices cited were $90.00 and $35.00. 


This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural American and the New Deal. Phillips, Sarah T. Cambridge Univ. Press.


Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art: Contreras, Belisario R., Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. London and Toronto: Associated University Press, 1983. 


Utah: Then and Now. Till, Tom. Westcliffe Publishers, 2000. 


Walters, Raymond. "The New Deal and the Negro." In The New Deal: The National Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.


Wirth, Conrad L. Parks, Politics and the People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

WPA Artwork in Non-Federal Repositories: Ed. I (1990) and Ed. II (Dec. 1999). U.S. General Services Administration. Public Buidins Service. Historic Buildings and the Arts Center of Expertise. Fine Arts Program.


Young Lawyer for the New Deal: An Insider's View of the Roosevelt Years. Emerson, Thomas Irwin. Rowman and Littlefield, 1991.

 


AGRICULTURE AND RESETTLEMENT INFORMATION
 
A New Deal for America: A National Conference on 1930’s, Arthurdale, and New Deal Homesteads 1994:  Edited by Bryan Ward. Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. 1995.


Agricultural Recovery in Michigan During the Great Depression: The Role of  the Cooperative Extension Service: 1933-1935.  Bryson, Norris C.


Behold Our Land: North American Review 246, no. 1 (September 1938): 118-141.Lord, Russel.


Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970: Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992. Pederson, Jane Marie. 


Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration: Leighninger, Jr., Robert D. University Press of Mississippi. 2007. ISBN 1-57806-945-9. 240 pp.


Building New Deal LiberalismL The Political Economy of Public Works: 1933-1956:  Smith, Jason Scott. Cambridge Univ. Press.


Building the Future: Preserving and Enhancing the Matanuska Colony Historic District: Pocket Guide to Developing Property Within the Matanuska Colony Historic District:  Susitna Borough Cultural Resources, Palmer, Alaska.  Fall 2005.


Chronicles of Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1955.Clark, James I.


Final Statistical Report of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.  Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1942: Whiting, Theodore E.
 
Greendale: The Little Village that Could…and Did: Edited by Hal Prey. Reiman Media Group, Inc. Country Books, Greendale, WI. 2004. 191 pp.


In A Half Century Ago: Michigan in the Great Depression: Proceeding of the symposium in East Lansing: Michgan, January 19, 1980, by the Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, 22-55. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1980.


Leaving the Land Behind: Struggles for Land Reform in U.S.  Federal Policy, 1933-1965: Presented at the Who Owns America? Conference, June 21-24, 1995, by the Land Tenure Center, 1-17. Madison: University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1996.Gilbert, Jess and Alice O'Connor.


Map of the New Deal: Scribners 99, no. 4 (April 1936): 220-224. Coyle, David Cushman.


Native Americans in the 20th Century: James S. Olson and Raymond Wilson.


Pick Axe and Pencil: References for the Study of the WPA. Compiled by Marguerite D. Bloxom. Bibliography Section, General Reading Rooms Division-Library of Congress. Washington, DC. 1982. 87 pp. ISBN 0-8444-0384-9. 


Planning a Wilderness: Regenerating the Great Lakes Cutover Region: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Kates, James.


Put to Work: Relief Program in the Great Depression: Rose, Nancy E. Cornerstone Books-Monthly Review Press. 1994  


Resettlement Towns Tomorrow : A New World:  Paul K. Conkin


Six Rural Problem Areas: Relief-Resources-Rehabilitation, Federal    Emergency Relief Administration, Division of Research Statistics and Finance Research Section, (Washington D.C.: GPO, 1935). Beck, P.G. and M.C. Forster,


Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief. Hopkins, Harry. Seattle University of Washington Press, 1936. Reprint, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1972:


The 1934 Yearbook of Agriculture. Washington, D.C. GPO, 1934: U.S. Department of Agriculture.


The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture: Agricultural History 74, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 241-257. Summers, Mary.


The Raw Deal: How Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal: Conosan, Joe. Polipoint Press. 2005. 294 pp.


The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever:  Sustein, Cass R., New York: Basic Books. 2005. 414 pp.


The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes, 3 vols. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953-54: Ickes, Harold.


The Wallaces of Iowa.  Lord, Russell. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1947.


The Wisconsin Resettlement program of the 1930s: Relocation to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1967. Christiansen, Rudolph, and Sydney D. Staniforth.


Who is on Relief?: Scribners 97, no. 1 (January 1935): 25-30. Gralten, C. Hartley.
Books by Robert S. McElvaine  


Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters form the Forgotten Man. Edited by Robert S. McElvaine. University of South Carolina Press,1983. 


Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (editor in chief) (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).


Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002).


The Depression and the New Deal: A History in Documents, McElvaine, Robert S. Oxford University Press, 2000. 


The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941, McElvaine, Robert S. Random House, 1993.


What's Left?---A New Democratic Vision for America (Holbrook, Mass,: Adams Publishing, 1996).
Also Portions of Other Books also by McElvaine
 
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). 


Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).


Life: Out Century in Pictures (Boston: Little Brown, 1999).
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, "The Great Depression", 1997


Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State (WPA Writers' Project new edition-introduction, University Press of Mississippi, 1988)


The American Presidents, (FDR portion) Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1986).


The New Book of Knowledge (Danbury, Conn. Scholastic/Grolier, 2002).


The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
 

 

DVDs, Videos


Arthurdale: A First Lady’s Legacy. Produced by WNPB, Morgantown, WV. West Virginia Public Broadcasting. 1987.


FDR: A Presidency Revealed.  Two disks.


Timberline Lodge:
The Builders of Timberline, Vintage Timberline and Doorways to the Past –Legacy of the Thirties.  Produced by Friends of Timberline, 2005.