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* [http://investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu/m10.html The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression]
* [http://investigatinghistory.ashp.cuny.edu/m10.html The Big Strike: Labor Unrest in the Great Depression]
: This module invites an intensive study of the 1934 Pacific Coast waterfront strike and the documentary record it produced as a way to explore the broader social, political, economic, and cultural tensions of the New Deal era.
: This module invites an intensive study of the 1934 Pacific Coast waterfront strike and the documentary record it produced as a way to explore the broader social, political, economic, and cultural tensions of the New Deal era.
* [http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnselhel15.html ''A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn'': Chapter 15: Self-Help in Hard Times]
: A chapter from [[wikipedia:Howard Zinn|Howard Zinn]]'s classic ''[[wikipedia:A People's History of the United States|A People's History of the United States]]'' covering history of the period just after World War One, through the Great Depression and all the way up to World War Two from the perspective of ordinary Americans.


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== A New Deal ==
== A New Deal ==
Upon accepting the 1932 [[wikipedia:History of the United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] nomination for president, Franklin Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people."<ref>The phrase was perhaps borrowed from the title of [[wikipedia:Stuart Chase|Stuart Chase]]'s book ''A New Deal'' published in February 1932 and serialized in the ''New Republic'' that summer. Gary Dean Best, ''Peddling panaceas: popular economists in the New Deal era'' (2005) p. 117</ref>
Upon accepting the 1932 [[wikipedia:History of the United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] nomination for president, Franklin Roosevelt promised "a new deal for the American people."<ref>The phrase was perhaps borrowed from the title of [[wikipedia:Stuart Chase|Stuart Chase]]'s book ''A New Deal'' published in February 1932 and serialized in the ''New Republic'' that summer. Gary Dean Best, ''Peddling panaceas: popular economists in the New Deal era'' (2005) p. 117</ref>

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