HIS330: Between the Wars: the U.S. in the ’20s & ‘30s

Edmund Wilson, “It’s Great to be a New Yorker!” (p.29) “Return from Louisiana” (p.133)

James Fink, “The Car Culture”

“The Automobile Comes to Middletown”

“Moving Pictures Evoke Concern”

Edmund Wilson, “Communists and Cops” (p.206)

“The National Association of Manufacturers Defends the Open Shop”

“Labor’s Case Against Welfare Capitalism”

“The Employer’s Case for Welfare Capitalism”

Dana Frank, “Workers as Consumers in Seattle”

“Ralph Chaplin Recalls the Clampdown of the ‘Red Scare’”

“Attorney General Palmer’s Case Against the ‘Reds’”

Paul Fass, “Symbols of Liberation” and “The Politics of Cultural Liberation”

“Happiness in Marriage”

John D’Emilio and Estelle Friedman, “The Sexual Revolution”

Alice Kessler-Harris, “The Uneasy Relationship Between Labor and Women”

“The Women’s Bureau Exposes the Myths about Women’s Work”

“Employers Consider Regulation of Women’s Work”

Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Maternalism, Feminism, and the Politics of Reform in the 1920s”

“A Mother’s Letter to the Children’s Bureau”

“Florence Kelley and Elsie Hill Debate Equal Rights for Women”

“Alva Belmont Urges Women Not to Vote”

"The AFL Ignores Women”

Ruth Cowan, “American Ideas about Technology”

“Mechanizing Sight and Sound”

Willard Gatewood, “After Scopes: Evolution in the South”

“The Reverend Amzi Clarence Dixon on the Evils of Evolution”

Bruce Barton, “The Man Nobody Knows”

“The Governor of California on the ‘Oriental Problem’”

“Congress Debates Immigration Restriction”

David Montejano, “The ‘Mexican Problem’”

“Modern-Day Girls”

“John Box Objects to Mexican Immigrants”

A Jewish Leader Laments the Rise of Nativism”

“The Ku Klux Klan Defines Americanism”

David Chalmers, “The Hooded Knights Revive Rule by Terror in the Twenties”

Nancy MacLean, “Mobilizing the Invisible Army”

Stuart Chase, “Prosperity: Fact or Myth”

John Raskob, “Everybody Ought to Be Rich”

Jane Addams on Prohibition

Robert and Helen Lynd, “Remaking Leisure in Middletown”

Edmund Wilson, “Detroit Motors” (p.214)

Edmund Wilson, “A Bad Day in Brooklyn” (p.281) and “May First” (p.292)

Herbert Hoover on “American Individualism”

Elis Hawley, “Herbert Hoover and the ‘Associational’ State

“The National Labor Relations Act, 1935.”

Robin G. Kelley, “Radical Organizing During the Depression.”

Richard Wright, “Communism in the 1930s.”

Edmund Wilson, “Tennessee Agrarians” (p.328) and “The Scottsboro Freight-Car Case” (p.334)

Milo Reno, “Why the Farmer’s Holiday?”

F. D. Roosevelt, “President’s Council Reports on Southern Economic Conditions, 1938.”

Meridel Le Sueur, “Women on the Breadlines.”

Edmund Wilson, American, “Washington: Inaugural Parade” (p.478)

“Depression and the New Deal Both Hit Black Farmers.”

“From a Dust Bowl Diary.”

“John Crowe Ransom Takes a Stand for the Agrarian Way of Life.”

Andrea Tone, “Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s.”

Susan Ware, “Women and the New Deal.”

Mirra Komarovsky, “Mr. Patterson.”

Edmund Wilson, “The Enchanted Forest” (p.348) and “Indian Corn Dance” (p.361)

Alan Lawson, “The Cultural Legacy of the New Deal.”

“The Educational Promise of Radio.”

“An Artist Remembers the WPA.”

Jane S. De Hart, “A New Deal for Art.”

Richard King, “Explaining the Southern Renaissance”

“Tenant Farmers Recall the Conditions of Sharecropping in the 1930s.”

Stella Nowicki “Recalls Organizing the Packinghouses in the 1930s.”

“Southerner Recalls Limits of Labor’s Rights, 1938.”

“The Chicago Defender Sees the CIO as a Civil Rights Organization, 1939.”

Edmund Wilson, “Washington: Glimpses of the New Deal” (p.534)

W.P. Kiplinger, “Why Businessmen Fear Washington,”

Alan Brinkley, “Dissidents and Demagogues.”

Colin Gordon, “Business vs. The New Deal.”

“Southern Democrats Erode New Deal Coalition.”

“Houston and Davis Critique the Lily-White Tennessee Valley Authority.”