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Required readings: Sanora Babb, Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel *Photogrammar – Explore Yale University’s 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the US Farm Security Administration (use images from this website for your collaborative Wikipedia assignment) Recommended readings if you are interested in learning more: John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies *George J. Sanchez,… MORE
Although the Great Depression was born on Wall Street, it affected Americans in their homes and on the streets, and its ramifications would echo for decades. The record unemployment of the Great Depression is jarring but doesn’t even begin to convey the distress felt by individuals in their daily lives for so many years. Many… MORE
Like the word “awesome,” the depth and meaning of the word “great” has lost some of its intensity due to overuse. But in order to begin to understand the Great Depression, it’s important to first understand why it was considered capital-G “Great” in the first place. It may be useful to consider it in comparison to the… MORE
No historical event, idea or figure is ever safe from constant interpretation and reinterpretation. The presidency of Herbert Hoover is a terrific example of this phenomenon. In his early presidency, he was vilified for exercising too much federal power during a time of isolationism; he was later vilified for doing too little during the Great… MORE