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Books on: great depression children

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Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience

Book by Glen H. Elder Jr.; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Depressions--1929--United States, Family--California--Oakland--Longitudinal Studies, Students--California--Oakland--Social Conditions--Longitudinal Studies

Collections: History, Entire Library

First published in 1974, this study follows 167 individuals born in 1920-1921 from their school days in Oakland, California, to the 1960s.
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Headin' for Better Times: The Arts of the Great Depression

Book by Duane Damon; Lerner, 2002

Subjects:

Arts, American--20th Century, Arts--Psychological Aspects

...dreams, the Great Depression was on. NO...serving of bread. Children shared the...her older children draping her...story of the Great Depression came not...Conrad. The Great Depression. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1989...
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Technological Innovation and the Great Depression

Book by Rick Szostak; Westview Press, 1995

Subjects:

Consumption (Economics)--United States--History--20th Century, Depressions--1929--United States, Industries--United States--History--20th Century, Investments--United States--History--20th Century, Technological Innovations--Economic Aspects--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

...macroeconomists can learn more from the Great Depression than from the relatively tranquil...unemployment associated with the Great Depression" 1987: 44 . Any theory which...and the extreme length of the Great Depression. Given the dominant place of...
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The Great Depression and the New Deal

Book by Robert F. Himmelberg; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

Depressions--1929--United States, New Deal, 1933-1939, United States--History--1919-1933, United States--History--1933-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

This essential guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal provides a wealth of information, analysis, biographical profiles, primary documents and current resources that will help students to understand this pivotal era in American history. The author, an expert on this age of U.S. history and ...
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This essential guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal provides a wealth of information, analysis, biographical profiles, primary documents and current resources that will help students to understand this pivotal era in American history. The author, an expert on this age of U.S. history and politics, brings to life the traumatic period that began in 1929 and ended only with America's entrance into World War II in 1941. He carefully explains the causes of the Depression, the actions taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt to lift America out of its economic morass, and the economic, political, social, and cultural aspects of the age.
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The Global Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-1939

Book by Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1996

Subjects:

Depressions--1929--Developing Countries, Developing Countries--Economic Conditions, Economic History--1918-1945

Collections: History, Entire Library

Dietmar Rothermund broadens the conventional focus of the great depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The book:* gives the economic background to the depression* examines the causes of the great depression, from the international gold standard to ...
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Dietmar Rothermund broadens the conventional focus of the great depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The book:* gives the economic background to the depression* examines the causes of the great depression, from the international gold standard to agricultural over-production in the US* describes the effects on different countries from the Americas to India, Africa and East Asia* pays particular attention to the impact on the peasantry in developing countries* considers the political consequences, such as fascism in Europe* assesses the aftermath and the re-alignment of America, Europe and their colonies* explains key areas, such as Keynesian theory, in accessible terms.
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Journal Articles on: great depression children

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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

Journal article by Wynell Schamel; Social Education, Vol. 68, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Letters from Children of the Great Depression. by Wynell...poverty-stricken children to Eleanor Roosevelt...dismal years of the Great Depression. In an effort...Letters from Children of the Great Depression. In a thorough...
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Using the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Impact of the Great Depression

Journal article by Stephanie J. Shaw; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003

Subjects:

African Americans--History, Freedmen--History, Freedmen--Personal narratives, Great Depression, 1929-1934--History, Great Depression, 1929-1934--Social aspects, Slavery--History, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Social aspects, United States. Works Progress Administration--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...respondents were children at the time...confidence. The Great Depression looms large...during the Great Depression, especially...acquaintances or children for support...sons in the Great Migration...until the depression hit the industry...followed their children as well...
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HARD TIMES AND NEW DEALS: Teaching Fifth Graders about the Great Depression

Journal article by Gary Fertig; Social Education, Vol. 65, 2001

Subjects:

Great Depression--Study and teaching, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Social policy, Social sciences--Study and teaching, United States history--1919-1933

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...THE GREAT DEPRESSION that began...studies of how children develop historical...unit on the Great Depression that attempts...findings on childrens historical...and not as children, and, second...Knowledge of the Depression is expressed...that the Great Depression...
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History on Stage: The Detroit Players, Prohibition, and the Great Depression

Journal article by Marijean Levering; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 33, 2007

Subjects:

Great Depression, 1929-1934, Local history, Men's associations, Michigan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...their jobs during the Great Depression. On the other hand...Frolics" for members children, which cost $2,411...country moved into the Great Depression. In the early years...S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941...
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Social Security, the "Money Power" and the Great Depression: The International Dimension to Australian and New Zealand Labour in Office

Journal article by James Bennett; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 43, 1997

Subjects:

Australian Labor Party--Social policy, Great Depression--International aspects, Labour Party (New Zealand)--Social policy, Social security--International aspects, Welfare state--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...NZLP during the Depression years were striking...Vowles, eds, The Great Experiment (Auckland...Redistribution to Children and to Mothers...The Conquest of Depression. A Trade Union...T. Lang. The Great Bust: The Depression of the Thirties...

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Magazine Articles on: great depression children

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Herbert Hoover - an Uncommon Man Brought Down by the Great Depression

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; World and I, Vol. 16, March 2001

Subjects:

History--20th century AD, History--Analysis, Hoover, Herbert--Behavior

Collections: Entire Library

...believe that Roosevelts New Deal helped bring the Great Depression to an end; conservatives say that the Depression wasnt...equipment. Huldah, his Canadian-born mother, bore three children. The family--especially Huldah--were devout Quakers...
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Modernizing Social Security: Bring This Great Depression Relic into the Age of Investing, or Watch It Collapse

Magazine article by Jeffrey Brown, Brian Jenn, Charles E. Rounds Jr., R.H. Sager; The American Enterprise, Vol. 13, July 2002

Subjects:

Social security reform--Planning, United States--Social policy

Collections: Entire Library

Modernizing Social Security: bring this Great Depression relic into the age of investing, or watch it collapse...who die early could pass on their savings to spouses and children. Another disadvantage of the current system is that it...
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Our Children Need a New Deal; Why Are Our Young People So Unhappy? Because We Have Become a Society That Fears, Demonises and Silences Them. the Fault Is Ours, Not Theirs. Suzanne Moore Calls for a Radical New Approach. Exclusive Photo Essay

Magazine article by Nick Danziger; New Statesman, Vol. 137, July 7, 2008

Subjects:

Cameron, David--Speeches, lectures and essays, Child welfare--Evaluation, Child welfare--Statistics, Childhood depression--Evaluation, Depression in children--Evaluation, Politicians--Speeches, lectures and essays, United Kingdom--Social policy

Collections: Entire Library

...ignore the collateral damage. The state as it functions is not a great parent. It is impotent in the face of declining social mobility...our own offspring has produced a culture that now fears the children of others so much, it turns them into aliens. We have angels...
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Steinbeck's Myth of the Okies

Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 20, June 2002

Subjects:

Great Depression--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature and history--Analysis, Migration, Internal--History, Steinbeck, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Grapes of Wrath (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...foreclosures during the Great Depression forced a mass migration...forced to watch their children starve in a land of...received image of the Great Depression. This number amounted...Communism seriously. The Great Depression had, for some, shaken...
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Still Depressed after All These Years

Magazine article by John Phipps; The American Enterprise, Vol. 8, January 1997

Subjects:

Businessmen--Personal narratives, Great Depression--Analysis, Liquidity (Finance)--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...to the borrowers, Mom and Dad? Enter their silly children, such as me. Although not for lack of trying, the effort to transplant lessons of the Great Depression into us Boomers has not succeeded. I understood my...

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Newspaper Articles on: great depression children

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A Raw Deal for America; Hungry Years ... Dorothea Lange's Iconic Image of a Mother and Her Children during the Great Depression

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Langes Iconic Image of a Mother and Her Children during the Great Depression. Byline: Dominic Lawson The title...as Joan Blondell laments what the Depression had wroughton the conscripts of the Great War: Remember my forgotten man You...
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THE COMEBACK KING; When Jim Braddock Won the World Heavyweight Title in1935, against All the Odds, It Gave Hope to a Nation in the Grip of the Great Depression. as Russell Crowe Stars in a New Film about the Boxer Dubbed the 'Cinderella Man', David O'Reilly Tells the Amazing Story of a Sporting Legend

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 12, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...market crashed, precipitating the Great Depression. Like so many others, Braddock...for winter heating, so their children had to move in with relatives...moments, in the depth of the Great Depression, people struggling to survive...
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Messenger Girl; to the outside World MELINDA MESSENGER Has a Dream Life: She Is Happily Married, Has Three Children, a Beautiful Home and a Successful Career in Television. but beneath the Fairytale Facade Lies a Story of Depression and Despair, Reveals FRANCES HARDY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 11, 2006

Subjects:

Bipolar disorder, Celebrities, Children

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...I have denied my depression through fear of it...She clearly adores children - and not just her...rapprochement. Things are great between us now, she...resolved to have no more children of her own. The postnatal depression that she endured...
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Health Zone: Children's Well Being - Stress, Anxiety, It's Hell Being a Kid; DEPRESSION HITS UP TO 100,000 UK CHILDREN.

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 18, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Being a Kid; DEPRESSION HITS UP TO 100,000 UK CHILDREN.. Byline...and showing great potential...the 100,000 children under the...suffering from depression at any one...and manic depression. "Mental...problems in children are on the...
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Health: When Childhood Moody Blues Turn to Black Depression; Growing Up Is Hard to Do but These Days Mounting Social Pressures on Children Are Making the Transition Harder Than Ever. Emma Pomfret Investigates

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 9, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...up, explains Dinah Morley, director of childrens mental health charity YoungMinds. But...to the point where they interfere a great deal with day-to-day living and take...extreme, some may actually have a clinical depression, she warns. This is a disturbed state...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: great depression children

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stated aim of creating a "Great Society," included a...issue of the busing of children to achieve integration...affairs, Carter focused a great deal of attention on...highest point since the Great Depression at almost 11%. By the...
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Social Work

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...promote temperance and encourage thrift, to care for children, the sick, and the aged, and to correct the delinquent...on a large scale to cope with the effects of the Great Depression . Resources were made available, the number of social...
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Labor Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with the health, safety, and morals of children employed in textile mills, and subsequent...servitude disappeared by 1910. As in Great Britain, labor organizing in the United...and massive poverty during the Great Depression led to a series of landmark labor laws...
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Scotland

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...reign of Queen Anne (1702 14), whose children predeceased her, in face of assiduous...Scottish representatives in a Parliament of Great Britain. Equality of trading privileges...that Scotland suffered heavily in the depression between the wars. In World War II, despite...
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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...proposal by Koizumi to allow women, and children through the maternal line, to succeed...addition to these economic pressures, great political pressure was put on Japan to...The first Persian Gulf War caused great dissension in Japan. The government, which...

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