The Culture of the Great Depression

Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Anderson, Sherwood. Puzzled America. Scribner, 1935.

Appel, Benjamin. The People Talk: American Voices from the Great Depression. Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Asch, Nathan. The Road: In Search of America. Norton, 1937.

Barnard, Rita. The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Beard, Charles A., and Beard, Mary. The American Spirit. Collier Books, 1942.

Browder, Laura. Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America. University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Callan, Jim. America in the 1930s. Stonesong Press, LLC, 2005.

Clausen, John A. American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Depression. University of California Press, 1993.

Cunningham, Charles. “”To Watch the Faces of the Poor”: Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression.” Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 29, no. 3, 1999, pp. 278-302.

Dickstein, Morris. Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. W.W. Norton, 2009.

Dubofsky, Melvin (Ed.). The Great Depression and the New Deal. 7 Vols. Garland, 1990.

Elder, Glen H., Jr. Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience. Westview Press, 1999.

Entin, Joseph B. Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Evans, Walker. Walker Evans – Amerika: Bilder Aus Den Jahren Der Depression. Schirmer-Mosel, 1997.

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn. “Or Does It Explode?” – Black Harlem in the Great Depression. Oxford University Press, 1991.

Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Hanson, Philip. This Side of Despair: How the Movies and American Life Intersected During the Great Depression. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2008.

Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Cambridge UP, 1995.

Jeff, Allred. American Modernism and the Depression Documentary. Oxford UP, 2010.

Jones, Gavin. American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945. Princeton University Press, 2008.

Lynd, Robert and Helen. Middletown: A Study in American Culture. Harourt, Brace and Company, 1929.

McElvaine, Robert S. Encyclopedia of the Great Depression: Volume 1: A-K, Index. MacMillan Reference USA, Gale Cengage Learning, 2004.

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Nate, Richard. Amerikanische Träume: Die Kultur Der Vereinigten Staaten in Der Zeit Des New Deal. Königshausen&Neumann, 2003.

O’Connor, Francis V. . Art for the Millions:Essays from the 1930’s by Artists and Administrators of the Wpa Federal Art Project. Graphic Society, 1975.

Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions, American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. U of Illinois P, 1973.

Rabinowitz, Paula. Labor & Desire. Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. U of North Carolina P, 1991.

Schocket, Eric. Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Shaw, Stephanie J. “Using the Wpa Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Impact of the Great Depression.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 69, no. 3, 2003, pp. 623-658.

Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca. Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era. U of North Carolina P, 2009.

Taylor, David A. Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2009.

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times – an Oral History of the Great Depression. The New Press, 1986.

Vachon, John. John Vachon’s America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War Ii. University of California Press, 2003.

Ware, Susan. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s. Twayne, 1982.

Webb, Sheila. “The Consumer-Citizen: Life Magazine’s Construction of a Middle-Class Lifestyle.” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 34, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23-47.

Wright, Bradford. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Johns Hopkins UP, 2001.

Young, William H. with Nancy K. Young. The 1930s: American Popular Culture through History. Greenwood Press, 2002.

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