{"id":715,"date":"2018-03-10T02:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=715"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:18:56","slug":"chapter-22-depression-new-deal-and-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2018\/03\/chapter-22-depression-new-deal-and-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 22: Depression, New Deal (and Spring Break)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week before Spring Break we explore the 1930s — economics, culture, and politics (Chapter 22). You are also completing the second Constitutions Module and making progress on your Evidence-Based Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mon 3\/12<\/strong> – Reading: The Great Depression. Complete Constitutions Module #2 by midnight (on Blackboard).<\/p>\n

Link: Smoot-Hawley Tariff in historical perspective<\/a> (NYT Daily) <\/p>\n

Wed 3\/14<\/strong> – Reading: The New Deal<\/p>\n

Link: FDR’s first inaugural March 1933<\/a><\/p>\n

Fri 3\/16<\/strong> – Reading: The New Deal Moves Left \/ New Deal Liberalism. DRAFT is due of your Evidence-Based Paper. Please bring it to class as a printed paper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

New Classroom starting on Friday, Feb 16 = Eager Auditorium (Sullivan 146)<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>We will combine with another HI 112 section for the rest of the term; see the announcement on Blackboard for details. <\/p>\n

Links for Wednesday’s Culture of the 1930s workshop:<\/p>\n

Radio:
\nA Day in Radio<\/a> (21 Sept 1939)
\nMercury Theater of the Air<\/a>
\n85 News Radio Programs from the 1930s<\/a> from Internet Archive<\/p>\n

FSA Photographs, WPA Murals
\nDust Bowl Texas<\/a>
\nDorothea Lange – farmers<\/a>
\nMural by Charles Klauder<\/a>, 1940
\nThomas Hart Benton, America Today<\/a>, 1931 <\/p>\n

Popular Songs:
\n“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”<\/a> (NPR)
\n“I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams”<\/a> (Bing Crosby)
\n“Pennies from Heaven”<\/a> (Billie Holliday)<\/p>\n

Film Clips:
\nFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers <\/a>(Swing Time, 1936)
\n“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”<\/a> (Wizard of Oz, dir. Victor Fleming 1939)
\nTwo for a Penny<\/a> (Grapes of Wrath, dir. John Ford 1940)
\n“Remember My Forgotten Man<\/a>” (Gold Diggers of 1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy 1933)<\/p>\n

Image: “Fireside Chat Listener” statue in the FDR Memorial, Washington DC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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