American History Since 1877

Resources selected to supplement American History Since 1877 (HSTY 202) taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

The New Deal, 1933-1939

Books in Our Library

• The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt: a Chronicle of the New Deal and Global War [E806 .B7]
• Eudora Welty: Photographs by Eudora Welty (1909-2001) [TR654 .W422 1989] Volume contains photographs of the rural South during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, as Welty turned the lens on the Great Depression and the New Deal, especially during her work for the Works Progress Administration. Book includes an interview with Eudora Welty. - Primary source
• Here's New England! A guide to Vacationland, written and compiled by members of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the New England States [F2.3 .F42] - Primary source (published 1939)
• Put to Work: Relief Programs in the Great Depression [HD5713.6.U54 R67 1994]
• Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 [HD8085.C53 C64 1993]
• Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties [HN79.A13 S87] - Primary source
• Turbulent Years; a History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 [HD8072 .B38]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on The New Deal, 1933-1939 in the TC3 Library Catalog, the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat.

• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• United States, Economic conditions, 1933-1939
• United States, Social conditions, 1933-1939
• United States, History, 1919-1933

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (History & Archaeology).

Web Resources

• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
  "Website contains images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection...Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II."
• Archives of American Art, Oral History Collections
  "Website contains images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection...Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II."
• Berenice Abbot: Changing New York, the Complete WPA Project
  From the Virtual Exhibitions of the Museum of the City of New York. "This web presentation includes all 307 images from Abbott's 1935-1939 Changing New York project, and the full text of ... 'Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (The New Press, 1997)'."
• By the People, For the People Posters from the WPA
  "908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal."
• FDR Cartoon Archive
  "The collection ... consists mainly of newspaper clippings and approximately 30,000 political cartoons dating from 1932 to 1943."
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
  The website has a rich collection of online documents and photographs.
• New Deal Network
  The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) created this "database of primary source materials-photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents)- gathered from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources."
• Studs Terkel: Conversations with America: Recordings from Hard Times
  Recordings of personal interviews for Terkel's book on the Great Depression.