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Madrid revisited : life and labor in a New Mexican mining camp in the years of the Great Depression / Richard Melzer

Author:
Melzer, Richard  Search this
Subject:
Albuquerque & Cervillos Coal Company  Search this
Physical description:
63 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New Mexico
Madrid
Madrid (N.M.)
Date:
1976
C1976
Topic:
Coal miners--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Call number:
HD8039.M62U6446X 1976
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_431925

Race, class, and community in Southern labor history / edited by Gary M. Fink, Merl E. Reed

Author:
Fink, Gary M  Search this
Reed, Merl Elwyn 1925-  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 297 p.: ill., charts ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1994
C1994
Topic:
Textile workers--History  Search this
African Americans--Employment--History  Search this
Women--Employment--History  Search this
Labor movement--History  Search this
Working class--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
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edanmdm:siris_sil_478159

Messiah of the masses : Huey P. Long and the Great Depression / Glen Jeansonne

Author:
Jeansonne, Glen 1946-  Search this
Subject:
Long, Huey Pierce 1893-1935  Search this
United States Congress Senate  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 204 p. : port. ; 20 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Louisiana
Date:
1993
C1993
1929
1865-1950
1933-1945
Topic:
Depressions  Search this
Legislators  Search this
Governors--Biography  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_457606

American lives : looking back at the children of the Great Depression / John A. Clausen ; foreword by Glen H. Elder, jr

Author:
Clausen, John A  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 592 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1993
C1993
Topic:
Success--Psychological aspects--Longitudinal studies  Search this
Performance--Longitudinal studies  Search this
Success--Psychological aspects--Case studies  Search this
Performance--Case studies  Search this
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edanmdm:siris_sil_462863

Divided kingdom : work, community, and the mining wars in the Central Illinois coal fields during the Great Depression / Carl D. Oblinger

Author:
Oblinger, Carl D  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Interviews
Illinois
Date:
1991
1929
Topic:
Coal miners--Illinois  Search this
Coal mines and mining--History--Sources  Search this
Depressions--Sources  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Sources  Search this
Call number:
HD8039.M62U6475 1991X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_423471

To work and to wed : female employment, feminism, and the Great Depression / Lois Scharf

Author:
Scharf, Lois  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 240 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1980
C1980
Topic:
Married women--Employment--History  Search this
Feminism--History  Search this
Sex discrimination in employment--History  Search this
Women--Employment--History  Search this
Sex discrimination against women--History  Search this
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edanmdm:siris_sil_463527

Rising in the West : the true story of an "Okie" family from the Great Depression through the Reagan years / Dan Morgan

Author:
Morgan, Dan 1937-  Search this
Subject:
Tatum family  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 532 p. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Biography
Place:
United States
Oklahoma
California
Date:
1992
20th century
1933-1945
1945-
Topic:
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural families--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Call number:
CT274.T39M67 1992X
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_432669

Technology and choice : readings from Technology and culture / edited by Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K. Stine

Author:
LaFollette, Marcel C (Marcel Chotkowski)  Search this
Stine, Jeffrey K  Search this
Physical description:
341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1991
C1991
Topic:
Technology--Social aspects  Search this
Technological innovations--Social aspects  Search this
Call number:
T14.5.T44138 1991X
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_412876

The Great Depression : America in the 1930s / T.H. Watkins

Author:
Watkins, T. H (Tom H.) 1936-  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 375 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1993
C1993
1929
1933-1945
1919-1933
Topic:
Depressions  Search this
New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_463681

Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression / Robin D.G. Kelley

Author:
Kelley, Robin D. G  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alabama
Date:
1990
C1990
20th century
1929
Topic:
Communism--History  Search this
Communists--History  Search this
Depressions  Search this
Call number:
HX91.A2K45 1990X
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_434750

Golden fetters : the gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 / Barry Eichengreen

Author:
Eichengreen, Barry J  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1992
20th century
1929
Topic:
Gold standard--History  Search this
Depressions  Search this
Call number:
HG297.E53 1992X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_429472

The Great Depression and the culture of abundance : Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and mass culture in the 1930s / Rita Barnard

Author:
Barnard, Rita  Search this
Subject:
Fearing, Kenneth 1902-1961 Political and social views  Search this
West, Nathanael 1903-1940 Political and social views  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1995
20th century
Topic:
American literature--History and criticism  Search this
Popular literature--History and criticism  Search this
Literature and society--History  Search this
Popular culture--History  Search this
Social problems in literature  Search this
Depressions in literature  Search this
Economics in literature  Search this
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_492692

The shattered dream; Herbert Hoover and the great depression

Author:
Smith, Gene  Search this
Subject:
Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964  Search this
Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945  Search this
Physical description:
278 p. illus., ports. 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1970
1929-1933
Topic:
Politics and government  Search this
Call number:
CT275.H789 S6
E801 .S6X
CT275.H789S6
E801.S6X
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_4222

Endangered dreams : the Great Depression in California / Kevin Starr

Author:
Starr, Kevin  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 402 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
Date:
1996
1929
1850-1950
Topic:
Depressions  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_497791

New deal art in South Carolina : government-supported images from the great depression / Lise C. Swensson and Nancy M. Higgins, editors

Author:
Swensson, Lisë C  Search this
Higgins, Nancy M  Search this
South Carolina State Museum  Search this
Physical description:
86 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Pictorial works
Place:
South Carolina
Date:
1990
C1990
20th century
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this
Federal aid to the arts  Search this
New Deal art  Search this
Call number:
N6530.S6 N53 1990
N6530.S6N53 1990
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_405281

Artists respond to the Great Depression and the threat of fascism : the New York Artists' Union and its magazine Art front (1934-1937) / Francine Tyler

Author:
Tyler, Francine  Search this
Subject:
New York Artists' Union  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 402 leaves, [17] leaves of plates : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
New York (State)
New York
United States
Date:
1991
20th century
1929
Topic:
Art, American--Political aspects  Search this
Artists--Political activity  Search this
Social realism in art  Search this
Fascism in art  Search this
Depressions  Search this
Call number:
N6512 .T98 1991a
N6512.T98 1991a
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_431160

Building Hoover Dam : an oral history of the Great Depression / Andrew J. Dunar, Dennis McBride

Author:
Dunar, Andrew J  Search this
McBride, Dennis  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Nevada
Boulder City
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Boulder City (Nev.)
Date:
1993
C1993
Topic:
Dams--Design and construction--History  Search this
Construction workers--Interviews  Search this
Oral history  Search this
History  Search this
Biography  Search this
Call number:
TC557.5.H6D86 1993X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_449069

Memphis in the Great Depression / by Roger Biles

Author:
Biles, Roger 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Tennessee
Memphis
Memphis (Tenn.)
Date:
1986
C1986
1929
Topic:
Depressions  Search this
New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Call number:
HC108.M417B55 1986X
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_433219

A new deal for the American people / Roger Biles

Author:
Biles, Roger 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1991
1933-1945
Topic:
New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_488940

Children in time and place : developmental and historical insights / edited by Glen H. Elder, Jr., John Modell, Ross D. Parke

Author:
Elder, Glen H  Search this
Modell, John  Search this
Parke, Ross D  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
1994, c1993
20th century
Topic:
Children--Social conditions  Search this
Children--History  Search this
Child development--History  Search this
Call number:
HQ792.U5 C53 1994
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_478119

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