LibGuides: POL 499: Senior Seminar in Political Science: FDR: The WPA & the CCC

Print Books

American-Made by Nick Taylor
Call Number: HD5724 .T34 2008
ISBN: 9780553802351
First 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.

Dorothea Lange
Dorothea 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 Association
The 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 CCC
The 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.

Portrait of America by Jerrold Hirsch
ISBN: 9780807861660
Publication Date: 2004-07-21
The 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 Sanora Babb; Dorothy Babb (Photographer); Douglas Wixson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780292795259
Publication 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.