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Lowitt, Richard. The New Deal and the West. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

The standard history of the New Deal in the West.

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

Discusses the changes the New Deal brought to the lives of single mothers and their children; traces the history of welfare programs in the Social Security Act.

Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farmworkers, Cotton, and the New Deal.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Study of the lives of California farmworkers based on oral histories.

Biolsi, Thomas. Organizing the Lakota: the Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992.

A study of the New Deal on two South Dakota Indian reservations.

Parman, Donald L. The Navajos and the New Deal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

An account of the impact of the New Deal on one of the largest Indian nations.

Schrader, Robert Fay. The Indian Arts & Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

An account of the New Deal-formed Indian Arts & Crafts Board.

Forrest, Suzanne.  The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico's Hispanics and the New Deal.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

A study of the difficulties New Dealers met in their attempts to transform social relations in New Mexico.

Nelson, Bruce.  Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

An account of worker radicalism in the Pacific Coast maritime strike of 1934.

Ulrich, Roberta.  Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999.

Study of the effect of dam-building programs on Pacific Northwest Indian fishing.

Davis, Kenneth S. FDR, The New Deal Years, 1933-1937: A History. New York: Random House, 1986.

New Deal history with an emphasis on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Schwarz, Jordan.  The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt.  New York: Knopf, 1993.

A history that introduces many key New Deal political players.

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

Discusses the fundamental changes that the New Deal programs brought to American society and their gradual erosion in the face of new political and social shifts.

Doorways to the Past: Timberline Lodge, Legacy of the 30's. 30m. 198? Film.

Original photographs and clippings combined with newer color views trace the construction of Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. Narration is done by people who participated in WPA project. FILM Mc323

Class Presentation: US History Survey Course. By Deborah Gray White. 50m. 1990. Videorecording.

Deborah White lectures on the social and economic conditions of Black women in the United States during the 1930's. Recorded April 20, 1990 at the University of Oregon; lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. VIDEOTAPE VT3346

Artists at Work: A Film on the New Deal Art Projects. 35m. 1981. Film.

An in-depth survey of the federal programs for support of visual artists during the depression. Several artists recount experiences with WPA's art project and other programs. Shows works of art created during the New Deal era and discusses the destruction and loss of many works of art produced then. FILM Md88

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

A resource page of links to other pages on FDR and the New Deal. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4545/

Hoover Dam

The Dam’s official page, including the "Virtual Visual Center." http://www.hooverdam.usbr.gov/

Meriam, Lewis, et al. The Problem of Indian Administration; Report of a Survey Made at the Request of Honorable Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and Submitted to him, February 21, 1928 [Meriam Report]. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1928.

An indictment of early twentieth century Indian policy that led to substantial changes of the Indian New Deal.

Hoover, Herbert. American Ideals Versus the New Deal. New York: Scribner Press, 1936.

"Booklet comprises a series of nine addresses upon pressing national problems."

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’s Project, 1936-1940.

"These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writer’s Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states." http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Works Progress Administration. Report on Progress of the WPA Program. Washington: GPO, 1935-42.

Fourteen volumes of progress reports, with maps, charts and photos, issued by the WPA describing ongoing projects.

Lowitt, Richard and Maurice Beasely, eds. One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Letters written between 1933-35 by the Roosevelt’s friend who was appointed the task of traveling the country and reporting on conditions.

Dunar, Andrew J. and Dennis McBride.  Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression.  New York: Twayne, 1993.