LIBRARY
POL 499: Senior Seminar in Political Science: FDR: The WPA & the CCC
Print Books
American-Made by Call Number: HD5724 .T34 2008ISBN: 9780553802351First comprehensive look at one of the most controversial, humane, and enduring programs ever: the Works in Progress Administration, which put more than eight million Americans back to work after the Great Depression.
Websites
- Dorothea LangeDorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called America's greatest documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. on this website are 42 pre-World War II photographs she created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) investigating living conditions of farm workers and their families in Western states such as California.
- Civilian Conservation Corp Legacy AssociationThe CCC is recognized as the single greatest conservation program in America and it served as a catalyst to develop the very tenets of modern conservation. The work of America's young men dramatically changed the future and today we still enjoy a legacy of natural resource treasures that dot the American landscape
- Radio Works: a brief history of the CCCThe program accepted unemployed, unmarried young men between 18 and 25 years old (later, the age limit was expanded to 17-28), but most of the enrollees were under 20. They called themselves "CCC boys," and so did everyone else.
ebooks
Portrait of America by ISBN: 9780807861660Publication Date: 2004-07-21The Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the immediate context of the FWP was work relief, national FWP officials developed programs that spoke to much larger and longer-standing debates over the nature of American identity and culture and the very definition of who was an American.
On the Dirty Plate Trail by ISBN: 9780292795259Publication Date: 2010-09-01"The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects-real people and actual experience-into aesthetic artifacts, icons of suffering, deprivation, and despair.
Primary Sources
- Records of the Civilian Conservation CoreRecords of the CCC
- Shenandoah National Park & the CCCA history of Shenandoah National Park