Chapter 22: Depression, New Deal (and Spring Break)
by Dr. H - March 10th, 2018
This week before Spring Break we explore the 1930s — economics, culture, and politics (Chapter 22). You are also completing the second Constitutions Module and making progress on your Evidence-Based Paper.
Mon 3/12 – Reading: The Great Depression. Complete Constitutions Module #2 by midnight (on Blackboard).
Link: Smoot-Hawley Tariff in historical perspective (NYT Daily)
Wed 3/14 – Reading: The New Deal
Link: FDR’s first inaugural March 1933
Fri 3/16 – Reading: The New Deal Moves Left / New Deal Liberalism. DRAFT is due of your Evidence-Based Paper. Please bring it to class as a printed paper.
New Classroom starting on Friday, Feb 16 = Eager Auditorium (Sullivan 146)
We will combine with another HI 112 section for the rest of the term; see the announcement on Blackboard for details.
Links for Wednesday’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)
“Remember My Forgotten Man” (Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy 1933)
Image: “Fireside Chat Listener” statue in the FDR Memorial, Washington DC
