US History II

Welcome back from Spring Break! This week we explore the 1930s – politics, economics, everyday life and pop culture. PSA 4 is due on Wednesday, March 20, and remember that Constitutions Module #2 closes at the end of next week, at 11:59 pm on March 29.

Study Questions for Chapter 22

Mon, March 18: Document Workshop on Depression-era United States

Wed, March 20: Read Chapter 22, The New Deal. PSA 4 due

Fri, March 22: Read Chapter 22, New Deal Moves Left and New Deal Liberalism

Links for Monday’s Culture of the 1930s workshop:

Radio:
A Day in Radio (21 Sept 1939)
Mercury Theater of the Air
85 News Radio Programs from the 1930s from Internet Archive

FSA Photographs, WPA Murals
Dust Bowl Texas
Dorothea Lange – farmers
Mural by Charles Klauder, 1940
Thomas Hart Benton, America Today, 1931

Popular Songs:
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (NPR)
“I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (Bing Crosby)
“Pennies from Heaven” (Billie Holliday)

Film Clips:
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Swing Time, 1936)
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (Wizard of Oz, dir. Victor Fleming 1939)
Two for a Penny (Grapes of Wrath, dir. John Ford 1940)
“We’re in the Money” (Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy 1933, choreographed by Busby Berkeley)
“Remember My Forgotten Man” (Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy 1933)

Links for Friday’s Discussion of the New Deal
FDR’s First Inaugural, March 4, 1933
Huey Long newsreel, 1936

Image: “Fireside Chat Listener” statue in the FDR Memorial, Washington DC