Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy. August 21, 2024 5:44 PM ET. By . Robert Smith , Alex Goldmark , Audrey Dilling ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute ...

As reported by ENR at the time, while the Depression deepened in the early 1930s, none of the initiatives taken by President Herbert Hoover or Congress did much to help, and some, such as the ...

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The New Deal is typically associated almost exclusively with the Great Depression—the country was suffering severe economic hardship and the Roosevelt administration’s policies were meant to ...

Had Americans understood how the New Deal had stymied recovery from the Great Depression, FDR would have been booted in 1936. As Jason Taylor shows in Deconstructing the Monolith, the Blue Eagle ...

This groundbreaking historical study focuses on the effects of the Great Depression on American religious life, exploring the shifts in power among American religious bodies and the everyday lives of ...

In 1932, FDR was elected on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. ... an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression.

He feared that it and other New Deal programs would push the nation too deeply in debt. But it was unclear what would work. Libraries are filled with books written about the causes of the Great ...

A long, illuminating introduction from the volume's editor, Amity Shlaes, is followed by 53 short selections from the New Deal era. Some are a bit tedious for bedtime reading, but many are jewels.

Baseball at Night by Russian-born Morris Kantor depicts a dusty contest in West Nyack, New York, that might induce nostalgia in some viewers today. SAAM, SI. In early 1934, the United States was ...

History 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy. season 5, episode 38. August 21, 2024 5:48 PM ET. By . Robert Smith , Alex Goldmark , Audrey Dilling ...