Readings

[Galbraith] = Buy at Amazon Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash of 1929. Mariner Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780395859995. [Preview with Google Books]

[McElvaine] = Buy at Amazon McElvaine, Robert. Down and Out in the Great Depression. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780807858912. [Preview with Google Books]

[Brinkley] = Buy at Amazon Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest. Vintage, 1983. ISBN: 9780394716282.

[Terkel] = Buy at Amazon Terkel, Studs. The Good War. New Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781565843431.

[Polenberg] = Buy at Amazon Polenberg, Richard. The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. ISBN: 9780312133108.

SES # TOPICS READINGS
Introduction
1 Breadlines to Atom Bombs  
The Great Depression
2 The End of Prosperity [Galbraith], 1–42, 66–143, 168–194
3 The End of Prosperity (cont.)  
4 The Unemployed [McElvaine], pp. 33–119
The New Deal
5 Roosevelt's 100 Days

[Brinkley], pp. 3–142;

[Polenberg], 1–1, 2; 2–3, 4
6 Roosevelt's 100 Days (cont.)  
7 Strikes and Struggles

[McElvaine], pp. 121–229;

[Polenberg], 2–1; 4
8 Strikes and Struggles (cont.)  
9 New Deal Order

[Brinkley], pp. 143–268;

[Polenberg], 1–3, 4, 5; 2–2, 5; 5
10 One Best Source Presentations  
11 Exam #1  
World War II at Home
12 Mobilizing for Victory

[Terkel], pp. 19–37; 301–42;

[Polenberg], 8, 9–9
13 Mobilizing for Victory (cont.)  
14 Gender and Race in Wartime

[Terkel], pp. 108–25; 135–65;

[Polenberg], 6–4, 9–1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8
15 Gender and Race in Wartime (cont.)  
World War II Abroad
16 D-Day [Terkel], pp. 38–58, 166–97, 254–93
17 Hiroshima [Terkel], pp. 59–66, 69–79, 85–97, 505–30, 545–55