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Course Materials (Fall 2009)

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    • Grapes of Wrath
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Epiphany in Venice
The Real Lesson is in the Journey
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Travel in the Thirties: Secondary Sources

Articles

Allen, Henry. “The Great Voyeur.” New York Review of Books. Volume 47, Number 5 · March 23, 2000

Berkowitz, M. A “‘New Deal’ for Leisure: Making Mass Tourism during the Great Depression” in Baranowski, Shelley, and Furlough, Ellen, Being Elsewhere

Boulard, Garry. ‘State of Emergency': Key West in the Great Depression Florida Historical Quarterly 1988 67(2): 166-183

Dawson, Michael. Taking the `d' out of `depression'': The Promise of Tourism in British Columbia, 1935-1939. BC Studies 2001-02 (132): 31-56

Fishback, Price, et al The Impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression.” Explorations in economic history 2006, vol.43 no.2, pg.179

Goodwin, James: The depression era in black and white: Four American photo-texts Criticism: a quarterly for literature and the arts (Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI) (40:2) [Spring 1998] , p.273-307

Gross, Andrew. The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification. Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 62.1 (2006) 85-111

Lambert, Kirby. The Lure of the Parks. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 1996 46(1): 42-55

Paxson, Frederic. The Highway Movement, 1916-1935. The American Historical Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Jan., 1946), pp. 236-253

Pillen, Cory. "See America: Posters and the Mapping of a New Deal Democracy." Journal of American Culture, 2008. 49-65. Vol. 31.

Schulten, Susan. "How to See Colorado: The Federal Writers' Project, American Regionalism, and the 'Old New Western History'." The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 35.

 

Books

Appel, Benjamin. The People Talk: American Voices from the Great Depression (1982)

Aron, Cindy S. Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (2001)

Belasco, Warren James. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945 (1979)

Bold, Christine. The WPA Guides: Mapping America (1999)

Browder, Laura. Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America (1998)

Conn, Peter. The American 1930s: A Literary History (2009)

Cooney, Terry A. Balancing acts: American thought and culture in the 1930's (1995)

French, Warren G. The Thirties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama (1967)

Geddes, Norman Bel. Magic Motorways (1940)

Gubbels, Jac. American Highways and Roadsides (1938)

Hirsch, Jerrold. Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project (2003)

Hobson, Archie. Remembering America: A Sampling of the Wpa American Guide Series (1987)

Jakle, John A. and Keith A. Sculle. Motoring: The Highway Experience In America (2008)

Jakle, John A. The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America (1985)

Kyvig, David E. Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (2002)

Mangione, Jerre. Dream and the Deal: Federal Writers' Project, 1935-43 (1996)

McElvaine, Robert S. Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man (1983)

McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 (1993)

Mullen, Bill V. Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture (1996)

Peeler, David P. Hope Among Us Yet By (2008)

Quinn, Susan. Furious improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times (2009)

Schindler-Carter, Petra. Vintage Snapshots: The Fabrication of a Nation in the W.P.A. American Guide Series (1999)

Seiler, Cotton. Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America (2008)

Shaffer. Marguerite. See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940 (2001)

Solomon, William. Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression (2002)

Swados, Harvey. The American Writer and the Great Depresssion (1966)

Taylor, David A. Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America (2009)

Taylor, Nick. American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA (2008)

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1986)

Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression (2003)

Weisberger, Bernard A. The WPA Guide to America (1985)

Willard, Pat. America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food (2008)

Young, William H., Nancy K. Young The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia (2007)

 

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