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American History: 1865 to the Present (GE 248)

DI Library's guide to books, websites, and other resources for students in American History

Books in the DI Library

Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 by Donald A. Ritchie
Call Number: E 805 .R58 2007
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee; Walker Evans
Call Number: HN 79 .A4 A535 1988

Online

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Jim Crow Era to the Great Depression (1878-1932) | ProQuest
Primary source documents related to critical people and events of this period
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: New Deal and World War II (1933-1945) | ProQuest
Primary source documents related to critical people and events of this period
Eleanor Roosevelt : American Experience | WGBH | PBS
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The Migrant Experience | Library of Congress
The New Deal | Surviving the Dust Bowl | American Experience | WGBH | PBS
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial (1935) | Famous Trials | UMKC School of Law | University of Missouri - Kansas City

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression (ebook) by Eddie Stimpson; Burnice Breckenridge (Illustrator); James W. Byrd (Introduction by); Frances Wells (Foreword by)
Full text available for free from the publisher (open access).
Indian Self Rule: First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan (ebook) by Kenneth Philp
Full text available for free from the publisher (open access).