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The Depression Decade

President Hoover's Problem

The First New Deal

The Second New Deal

The Depression Ends in War

Topics in the News

America and the crisis of the depression

Hoover's "Rugged Individualism"

Encouraging Words, Traditional Practice

The "Bonus Army"

Hoover Changes Course

Democracy and the new deal

Progressivism Resurgent

The First Hundred Days

Experimentalism

An Alphabet Soup of Agencies

African Americans and the New Deal

Roosevelt's Popularity

A Bowl Full of Dust

The Farm Crisis

Farm Problems before the Crash

The Onset of the Depression

Agricultural Unrest

The AAA

The Success of the AAA

The Farm Credit Administration

The Financial and Banking Crisis

The Banking Crisis

The Pecora Investigation

Banking Regulation

Taming Wall Street

Help for the Common Man

The CCC

FERA and the CWA

The PWA

The TVA

A Further Flurry of Government Activity

The Second New Deal

Social Security

The WPA

The NYA

Industrial Policy

The Fair Labor Standards Act

The NIRA and an "unfit chicken "

Industry and Labor

Labor Organization and Unrest

The San Francisco Longshoremen's Strike

Industrial Labor: Agitate, Educate, Organize

The United Mine Workers

CIO Unionization

New Deal Opponents

Alternatives on the Left and Right

Share-Our-Wealth Societies

The National Union for Social Justice

The Townsend Plan

A Left Alternative: EPIC

The Socialist Challenge to the New Deal

The Silver Shirts

The German-American Bund

The American Liberty League

Martin Dies and HUAC

The New Deal Stalls

The Roosevelt Recession

An Unsuccessful "Purge" of the Democratic Ranks

Politics:: The 1930 Elections

Congressional Election Issues

Democratic Gains

Politics: The 1932 Republican Nomination Race

An Unpopular President

The Republican Platform

Politics: The 1932 Democratic Nomination Race

Roosevelt the Frontrunner

Democratic Platform

Politics: The 1932 Eections

Roosevelt Wins Big

Politics: The 1934 Elections

Democrats Increase Their Majority

Republicans Attack the New Deal

Politics: The 1936 Republican Nomination Race

Drawing Ideological Battle Lines

The Republican Candidate Search

Politics: The 1936 Democratic Nomination Race

Democratic National Convention

"Rendezvous with Destiny"

Attack on Big Business

Democratic Coalition Building

Politics: The 1936 Elections

Democrats at the Height of their Power

Congressional Elections

Politics: The 1938 Elections

Republican Advance

Republicans Attack the New Deal

Toward War: U.S. Foreign Policy and Isolationism

American Foreign Policy in the 1930s

Roosevelt and Foreign Policy in the 1930s

The "Good Neighbor Policy"

Roosevelt and the Isolationists

The Nye Investigating Committee and Neutrality Acts

The Open Door in China, War with Japan

Drifting toward War

War Ends the Depression

Americans in the Spanish Civil War

Headline Makers

Depression-Era President

The Great Depression

A Popular Democrat

Creating the United Nations

Fiorello La Guardia

A Popular Politician

Mayor of New York

Alfred M. "Alf" Landon

Republican Candidate

Governor of Kansas

Presidential Candidate

Frances Perkins

First Woman Cabinet Member

New York State Appointments

Madame Secretary

Eleanor Roosevelt

Political Influence

Humanitarian, Feminist, Civil Rights Activist

Civil Rights for African Americans

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Influential Politician

President of the United States

Robert F. Wagner

A Voice for the Common Man

A New Deal Senator

People in the News

Deaths

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Frances Perkins was the first American woman appointed to a cabinet post. As secretary of labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was a leading force in New Deal labor policy.

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