The Contents of Defining Documents in American History: The 1930s (1930–1939)
Publisher's Note
Editor's Introduction
Contributors
Setting Up the New Deal
President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on “The Forgotten Man”
FDR on Government's Role in the Economy
Herbert Hoover Speaks Against the New Deal
Letter From Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat Outlining the New Deal
John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt
Letter-Report Concerning the Tennessee Valley
FDR on Social Security
Speech Against the President's “Court Packing” Plan
President Roosevelt: Fireside Chat on the Current Recession
The Hatch Act
Unemployment and Relief
Bumming in California
United We Eat–The Phenomenon of Unemployed Leagues
Letter From a Dust Bowl Survivor
Letter Regarding Assistance to the Poor
Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike
It's a Great Life in the CCC
I'd Rather Not Be on Relief
What REA Service Means to Our Farm Home
My Hopes for the CCC
Women, Minorities, and Youth
Women on the Breadlines
Eleanor Roosevelt: What Ten MiIllion Women Want
Eleanor Roosevelt on Women and the Vote
The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans
The Hurricane of 1932 in Puerto Rico
A New Deal for American Indians
Indians at Work
A Negro in the CCC
Letter Regarding the Needs of Puerto Ricans in New York
Plea from a Scottsboro Boy
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Our Jobless Youth: A Warning
What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?
The Bonus Army
Herbert Hoover to Reed Smoot Regarding the Bonus Loan Bill
Attack on the Bonus Army
Veterans March to Washington
Foreign Policy
Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty
Criticism of the Neutrality Act
Neutrality Act of 1935
Defense of the Neutrality Act
Address Delivered by the Secretary of State
Winston Churchill: The Lights are Going Out in Europe
Winston Churchill: A Hush Over Europe
Charles Lindbergh: Neutrality and War
Culture, Crime, and More
The National Anthem Established: The Star Spangled Banner
What I Knew About John Dillinger
The Hindenburg Disaster
From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot
On The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
Lou Gehrig: Farewell to Baseball
Chronological List
Web Resources
Bibliography