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Sean's Sources:

Life Before the Great Depression:

- “Overview:  Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929:  U.S. History Primary Source Timeline:  Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress:  Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/overview/.

- “Causes of the Great Depression.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/story/causes-of-the-great-depression

- Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2018). Digital History. Retrieved (3/16/22) from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

How Did it Affect American Life?

- Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2018). Digital History. Retrieved (3/16/22) from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

- Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression. . Encyclopedia.com. 28 Feb. 2022 .” Encyclopedia.com, Encyclopedia.com, 16 Mar. 2022, https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/everyday-life-1929-1941.

- Effects of the Great Depression - Thompsonschools.org. https://www.thompsonschools.org/cms/lib/CO01900772/Centricity/Domain/3627/Effects%20of%20the%20Great%20Depression%20Notetaker.pdf.

Examples of American Life

- Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2018). Overview of the Great Depression. Digital History. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=14&smtID=1

- “Dorothea Lange's Moving Photographs of the Depression Era - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, https://artsandculture.google.com/story/twWRzBM63VVaJw?hl=e

- Selections from The New Republic, Vol. 53, No. 688 (Feb. 8, 1928) are made available here with permission from the publisher.
The New Republic, 1220 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036

- Calvin Coolidge Papers.Thrift--Encouragement, 1923-29.
Permission to use the article "A Girl Scout is Thrifty" from The Girl Scout Leader, December 1926, was granted by the Girl Scouts of the USA.

-Calvin Coolidge Papers. Accomplishments of Calvin Coolidge Administration, 1924-28
-Calvin Coolidge Papers. Radio--General 1923-29.
-Calvin Coolidge Papers. Advertisement Exploitation.
Documents and letters with the letterhead of the Republican National Committee were reprinted with the permission of the Republican National Committee.

- “Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945: U.S. History Primary Source Timeline: Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress: Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-dep ression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/

The Aftermath of the Great Depression

- “Stock Market Crash of 1929.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/event/stock-market-crash-of-1929.

- Cole, Harold L., and Lee E. Ohanian. “New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis.” Journal of Political Economy, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421169?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=aft er+the+great+depression&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dafter%2Bthe %2Bgreat%2Bdepression%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&re freqid=fastly-default%3Ae65034845b54afd681a2bd0d60a6dd95&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

 - Leroy Ashby, “Battling the Great Depression” Accessed February 11, 2022 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcqsr.12?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=m arginalized+people+during+the+great+depression&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch %3FQuery%3Dmarginalized%2Bpeople%2Bduring%2Bthe%2Bgreat%2Bdepression%26so %3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A19 6d626714ebaaedafe3dbc45f73829d&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Images and Videos of The Great Depression

-“Dorothea Lange's Moving Photographs of the Depression Era - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, https://artsandculture.google.com/story/twWRzBM63VVaJw?hl=en 

-“Primary Sources: The Great Depression and the 1930s: Oral Histories.” LibGuides, https://cnu.libguides.com/c.php?g=23300&p=136932

-“The Great Depression Interviews.” Digital Library Services. Washington University Digital Gateway. Accessed February 11, 2022. http://digital.wustl.edu/greatdepression/browse.html.

Why The Great Depression Matters?

- Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2018). Digital History. Retrieved (3/16/22) from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

 - “Overview:  Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929:  U.S. History Primary Source Timeline:  Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress:  Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/overview/.

 - Cole, Harold L., and Lee E. Ohanian. “New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis.” Journal of Political Economy, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421169?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=aft er+the+great+depression&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dafter%2Bthe %2Bgreat%2Bdepression%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&re freqid=fastly-default%3Ae65034845b54afd681a2bd0d60a6dd95&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

“Economic Impact.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Economic-impact.

Paul's Sources

World War II and the Depression

Secondary Sources

-“Overview:  Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945:  U.S. History Primary Source Timeline  :  Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress  :  Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress. Library of Congress. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/overview/.

-“The Great Depression and World War 2.” The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945). Accessed February 11, 2022. https://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/timeline/pres_era/3_659.html.

-“World War II and the Ending of the Depression.” Encyclopedia.com. Cengage, February 11, 2022. https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/world-war-ii-and-ending-depression.

-“Sources of Recovery.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Accessed March 16, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Sources-of-recovery.

-“The American Economy during World War II.” EHnet. Accessed March 15, 2022. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/.

Primary Sources

-“Munitions Assembly Line 1943: Connecticut History: A Cthumanities Project.” Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. Connecticut History, January 26, 2022. https://connecticuthistory.org/munitions-assembly-line-1943/.

Multimedia Sources

-“Depression and World War II (1929–1945): Ken Burns in the Classroom.” PBS LearningMedia. KQED. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/era/depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/.

-“American Idealist: ‘Growing up, the Great Depression, and World War II.’” Facing History and Ourselves. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/american-idealist-growing-great-depression-and-world-war-ii.

The Great Depression

Secondary Sources

-“Political Movements and Social Change.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., July 20, 1998. https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Political-movements-and-social-change.

-Crafts, Nicholas, and Peter Fearon. “Lessons from the 1930s Great Depression.” OUP Academic. Oxford University Press, October 1, 2010. https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/article/26/3/285/374047.

Primary Sources

-“The Great Depression Interviews.” Digital Library Services. Washington University Digital Gateway. Accessed February 11, 2022. http://digital.wustl.edu/greatdepression/browse.html.

-“Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives - about This Collection.” Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Library of Congress, January 1, 1970. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/.

-“FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression.” National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration. Accessed February 11, 2022. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-inaugural.