Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at the point of intersection with worldwide patterns of economic crisis, political instability, and social transformation. Examining the Great Depression in the historical contexts of Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, and New Zealand and in the regional contexts of the United States, including Virginia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and South Carolina, this collection broadens our understanding of the scope of this crisis while also locating more familiar American examples in a global framework.
In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program.
In the summer of 1933, fearing that the Depression will never release its stranglehold on her family, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Turnquist leaves to ride the rails from town to town looking for work.
A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and cartoons of the day.
A nine-year-old boy and his father leave their farm in Virginia to join other veterans marching on Washington, D.C., to get the much-needed bonus money they had been promised after World War I.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
When Emma has recurring nightmares about being sent to the first of three children's homes, her twin sister suggests the bad dreams may stop if Emma writes down all her memories.
Au début des années 1930, Montréal est frappée par le chômage et la pauvreté.
A selection of work by Sam Hood, a commercial and newspaper photographer at a time when press photography was in its infancy. The images, from a collection in the State...
A real-life story of Emery Hinkhouse's first-hand struggles during the Great Depression.
En una serie de poemas, Billie Jo, de 15 años, relata las dificultades de vivir en la granja de trigo de su familia en Oklahoma durante los años de la depresión.