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Great Depression in the United States

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For younger readers

Blumenthal, Karen. Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929. Atheneum, 2002. For readers in grades 7 to 12.

Brennan, Kristine. The Stock Market Crash of 1929. Chelsea House, 2000. The causes, development, and consequences of the Great Depression; for middle school and high school readers.

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. Benchmark, 2001. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Grant, R. G. The Great Depression. Barrons, 2003. For readers in grades 6 to 12.

Nardo, Don, ed. The Great Depression. Greenhaven, 2000. Uses eyewitness materials to support a discussion of the Great Depression; for middle school and high school readers.

Woog, Adam. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Lucent, 1998. For readers in grade 7 and up.

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash: 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1955. To understand the Great Depression one must understand the Great Crash. Galbraith's slim and readable account is considered a classic.

McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941. Times Books, Random House, 1984. 1993. A compelling treatment of the forgotten men and women of the Great Depression.

Rose, Nancy Ellen. Put to Work: Relief Programs in the Great Depression. Monthly Review Press, 1994. Provides a useful overview of the work relief programs of the 1930s.

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression. New Press, 2000. First published in 1970, a classic history built upon a mosaic of memories.

Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Little, Brown, 1993. More than 100 photographs illuminate this narrative.

Watkins, T. H. The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America. Henry Holt, 2000. A grassroots history of the Great Depression.

Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression. Cambridge University Press, 1996. The collapse of Depression-era banks and the panics that ensued.

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