SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

BOOKS

Banner, Lois W. Women in Modern America.  San Diego:  Harcourt Brace Javonivich, 1984

Bentley, Joanne.  Hallie Flanagan:  A Life in the American Theatre.  New York:  Knopf, 1988

Bernstein, Irving.  A Caring Society:  The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985

Bernstein, Michael A.  The Great Depression:  Delaved Recovery and Economic Changes in America 1929 - 39.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1987

Blumberg, Barbara.  The New Deal and the Unemployed:  The View From New York City.  Lewisburg:  Bucknell University Press, 1979

Boris, Eileen. Home to Work:  Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1994

Braeman, John.  The New Deal:  The National Level IV.   Colombus, Ohio:  Ohio State University Press, 1975

Brinkley, Alan.  Voices of Protest:  Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

Brock, William R. Welfare, Democracy, and the New Deal.  New York:   Cambridge University Press, 1988

Brogan, Denis.  The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt:  A Chronicle of the New Deal.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1952

Brown, Dorothy.  Setting a Course:  American Women in the 1920s.   Boston:  Twayne, 1987

Brown, Josephine.  Public Relief, 1929-1939.  New York:   Henry Holt, 1940

Burns, Eveline M.  Toward Social Security.  New York:   Whittlesy House, 1936

Burns, James McGregor.  Roosevelt:  The Lion and the Fox.   New York:  Harcourt, Brace, 1956

Campbell, Rita Ricardo.  Social Security:  Promise and Reality.   Stanford, CA:  Hoover Institution Press, 1977

Carter, John Franklin.  The New Dealers.  New York:  Simon Schuster, 1934

Chafe, William H. Women and Equality:  Changing Patterns in American Culture.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1977

Chafe, William H. The Paradox of Change:  American Women in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  Oxford University Press,  1991

Chambers, Clarke.  Seedtime of Reform:  American Social Service and Social Action, 1918-1933.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967

Charels, Searle F.  Minister of Relief:  Harry Hopkins and the Depression.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1963

Conkin, Paul K.  The New Deal.  London:  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967

Davis, Kenneth S.  FDR:  The New Deal years 1933 - 1937, A History.  New York:  Random House, 1979

Degler, Carl.  At Odds:  Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1980.

Derber, Milton and Edwin Young, eds. Labor and the New Deal.   Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1961

Derthick, Martha.  Policymaking for Social Security.   Washington, D.C.:  1979

Domhoff, G. William.  The Power Elite and the State:  How Policy is Made in America.  New York:  Aldine de Gruyter, 1990

Ekirch, Arthur A.  Ideologies and Utopias:  The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought.  Chicago:  Quadrangle, 1969

Exekial, Mordecai.  Jobs for All Through Industrial Expansion.   New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1939

Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstel.  The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1989

Freidel, Frank.  Franklin D. Roosevelt:  Launching The New Deal.   Boston:  Little Brown, 1973

Fusfield, Daniel.  The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins fo the New Deal.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1956

Galbraith, John Kenneth.  The Economic Effects of the Federal Public Works Expernditures 1933-1938.  New York:  De Capo Press, 1975, orig. 1940

Gill, Corrington.  Wasted Manpower:  The Challenge of Unemployment.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1939

Gordon, Linda.  Pitied But Not Entitled:  Single mothers and the History of Welfare 1890 - 1935.  New York:  Macmillan, 1994

Gordon, Linda.  Women, the State and Welfare.  Madison:   University of Wisconsin Press, 1974

Graham, Otis.  An Encore for Reform:  The Old Progressives and the New Deal.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1967

Grob, Gerald N.  and George Athan Billias, eds.  Interpretations of American History:  Patterns and Perspectives.  Vol. II:  Since 1877. New York:  The Free Press, 1992

Hawley, Ellis W. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly:  A Study in Economic Ambivilence.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1966

Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Relief Policy.  New York:  Da Capo Press, 1943

Ickes, Harold L.  The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1953

Johnson, Hugh S. The Blue Eagle, From Egg to Earth.  Garden City:   Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935

Koven, Seth and Sonya Michel, eds. Mothers of a New World:   Maternalist Politics and the Origins of the Welfare State.  New York:   Routledge, 1993

Kurzman, Paul A. Harry Hopkins and the New Deal.  Fairlawn, New Jersey:  R. E. Burdick, Inc. 1974

Lash, Joseph.   Dealers and Dreamers:  A New Look at the New Deal.  New York:  Doubleday, 1988

Lemons, J. Stanley.  The Woman Citizen:  Social Feminism in teh 1920s.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1973

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1963

Macmahon, Arthur W., John D. Millett, and Gladys Ogden.  The Administration of Federal Work Relief.  Chicago:  Public Administration Service, 1941

Matthews, William H. Adventures in Giving. New York:  Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1939

McElvaine, Robert S.  The Great Depression: America, 1929 - 1941.   New York:  Times Books, 1984

McKinley, Charles and Robert W. Frase. Launching Social Security:  A Capture and Record Account. Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1970

Muncey, Robyn.  Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890 - 1935. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991

Patterson, James T.  The New Deal and the States:  Federalism in Transition. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1969

Patterson, James T. America's Struggle Against Poverty.  Cambridge:   Harvard University Press, 1986

Pells, Richard.  Radical Visions and American Dreams:  Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years.  New York:  1973

Perkins, Frances.  The Roosevelt I Knew.  New York:  Viking Press, 1946

Rauch, Basil.  History of the New Deal. New York:  Creative AGe Press, 1944

Ribuffo, Leo P. Right, Center, Left:  Essays in American History. New Brunswick, New Jersey:  Rutgers University Press, 1992

Robinson, Edgar E. The Roosevelt Leadership, 1933-1945.   Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippencott, 1955

Romasco, Albert.  The Poverty of Abundance.  New York:   Oxford University Press, 1965

Romasco, Albert.  The Politics of Recovery:  Roosevelt's New Deal.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1983

Rose, Nancy E.  Put to Work:  Relief Programs in teh Great Depression.  New York:  Monthly Review Press, 1994

Rosenberg, Rosalind.  Divided Lives:  American Women in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  Hill and Wang, 1972

Sarkesian, Sam C. and Robert E. Connor.  The US Military Profession into the Twenty-first Century:  War, Peace and Politics, 1999

Sautter, Udo. Three Cheers for the Unemployed:  Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal.  Nwe York:  Cambridge University Press, 1991

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.  The Coming of the New Deal. Vol. 2 The Age of Roosevelt. Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Schwartz, Bonnie Fox. The CWA, 1933-1934:  the Business of Emergency Employment. Princeton:  University of Princeton Press, 1984

Sitkoff, Harvard.  A New Deal for Blacks:  The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue, the Depression Decade. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1978

Sitkoff, Harvard, ed. Fifty years Later:  The New Deal Evaluated.   Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1985

Smith, Page.  Redeeming the Time:  A People's History of the 1920s and the New Deal.  Vol. 8 New York:  Penguin Books, 1987

Swain, Martha. Ellen W. Woodward:  New Deal Advocate for Women. Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1995

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times:  An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York City:  Pantheon Books, 1970

Tugwell, Rexford.  The Democratic Roosevelt. New York:   Doubleday, 1957

Ware, Susan.  Beyond Suffrage:  Women in the New Deal. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1981

Ware, Susan.  Partner and I:  Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1987

Weiss, Nancy J. Farewell to the Party of Lincoln:  Black Politics in the Age of FDR.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983

White, Graham and John Maze.  Harold Ickes: His Private Life and Public Career.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985

Williams, Edward Ainsworth.  Federal Aid for Relief.  New York:   Columbia University Press, 1939

Zinn, Howard, ed. New Deal Thought. New York:  Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1966

Ziskind, David.  One Thousand Strikes of Government Employees. 1940

ARTICLES

Bellush, John.  "Old and New Left:  Reappraisals of the New Deal and the Roosevelt Presidency."  Presidential Studies Quarterly 9 (Summer 1979):  243- 266

Biles, Roger. "The Urban South in the Great Depression." The Journal of Southern History 56 (February 1990):   71-100

Bremer, William W.  "Along the American Way:  The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed."  Journal of American History 62 (November 3 1975):  636-652

Gavins, Raymond. "Gordon Blaine Hancock:  A Black Profile From the New South." Journal of Negro History 59 (July 1974):  207-227

Goldfield, Michael.  "Worker Insurgency, Radical Organization, and New Deal Labor Legislation."  American Political Science Review 83 (No. 4, December 1989):  1257-1282

Gower, Calvin W. "The Struggle of Blacks for Leadership Positions in the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-1942." Journal of Negro History 61 (April 1976):  123-135

Holmes, Michael S. "The New Deal and Georgia's Black Youth." The Journal of Southern History 38 (August 1972): 443-460

Hopkins, Harry L.  "F.E.R.A."  Congressional Digest 14 (January 1935):  16

Ickes, Harold L.  "My Twelve years With  F. D. R." Saturday Evening Post (June 5 1948):  15-17,78, 81-82, 84, 89, 90, 92

Jeffries, John W. "The "New" New Deal:  FDR and American Liberalism. 1937-1945." Political Science Quarterly 105 (3 1990):   397-418

Johnson, Charles. "The Army, the Negro and the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-1942." Military Affairs 36 (October 1972):  82-88

Kidd, Stuart.  "Redefining the New Deal:  Some Thoughts on the Political and Cultural Perspectives of Revisionism."  Journal of American Studies 22 (1988):  389-415

Kirkendall, Richard S. "The New Deal as Watershed:  The Recent Literature." Journal of American History 54 (March 1968):  839-852

Leff, Mark.  "Taxing the "Forgotten Man":  The Politics of Social Security Finance in the New Deal." Journal of American History 70 (1983):  359-381

Matthews, William.  "Breaking the Poverty Circle." Survey 52 (April 15, 1924): 96-98

Post, Robert P.  "Grapping with the Vast Problem of Relief."  New York Times Magazine (8  July  1934): 3

Salmond, John A. "The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Negro." The Journal of American History 52 (June 1965):  75-88

Sautter, Udo. "Government and Unemployment:  The Use of Public Works Before the New Deal."  Journal of American History 73 (June 1986):   59-86

Schwartz, Bonnie Fox.  "New Deal Work Relief and Organized Labor:  CWA and AFL Building Trades." Labor History 17 (1 1976):  38-57

Skocpol, Theda.  "Political Responses to Capitalist Crises:   New-marxist Theories and the Case of the New Deal." Politics and Society 10 (1980):  155

Springer, Gertrude. "You Can't Eat Morale." Survey 72 (March 1936):  77

Trout, C. H. "Welfare in the New Deal Era." Current History 65 (3834 1973): 11

Tugwell, Rexford. "The New Deal:  The Progressive Tradition" Western Political Quarterly (1950):  390-427

Wright, Marian Thompson. "Negro Youth and the Federal Emergency Programs:  CCC and NYA (in Nonschool Agencies for the Education of Negro Youth)." Journal of Negro Education 9 (July 1940): 397-407

Yellowitz, Irwin.  "The Origins of Unemployment Reform in America." Labor History 9 (Fall 1968):  338-360

 

This bibliography is by no means comprehensive.  If you have addition to make to this list please email Katherine Ferreira with the book or article.