The Great Depression

Rugged individualism makes America prosperous / Herbert Hoover

A crisis calling for extreme measures / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Capital and labor must compromise / William Allen White

A plan to share the wealth / Huey Long

Does America need another plan? / Will Rogers

The promise of a New Deal / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Works Progress Administration: relief for the unemployed / Ellen S. Woodward

The agricultural adjustment act: helping America's farmers / Henry A. Wallace

Creating opportunities for America's youth / Aubrey Williams

Heeding the voice of labor / John L. Lewis

The problem of southern agricultural workers / Aubrey Williams

Cultivating America's interest in the arts / Eleanor Roosevelt

The time and place for a new American theater / Hallie Flanagan

Education and social responsibility / Robert Maynard Hutchins

Roosevelt and ruin / Charles E. Coughlin

The New Deal failed to live up to its promise / Alfred Emmanuel Smith

The New Deal erodes states' rights / Eugene Talmadge

Socialism, not the New Deal, will restore prosperity / Norman Mattoon Thomas

Securing the future of working Americans / Frances Perkins

A legacy of wasteful government spending / Harry F. Byrd

The principles of democracy are still at work / Charles Evans Hughes.