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Daughters of the Great Depression

Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319087
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Great Depression written by Laura Hapke and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.

Breadwinning Daughters

Author : Katrina Srigley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442640290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Breadwinning Daughters written by Katrina Srigley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto.

Daughter of the White River

Author : Denise Parkinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840136
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the White River written by Denise Parkinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic, true story of Helen Spence, the teenager who murdered her father’s killers in the insulated lower White River area of Arkansas in 1931. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’s White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father’s murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten—despite her unmarked grave. “Most memorably, Parkinson evokes the natural beauty of the White River itself. But more importantly, she’s given Helen Spence, daughter of the river, a sympathetic hearing—something in its pulp version of events Daring Detective did not.”—Memphis Flyer “Denise details Helen’s life, from the murder of her father to the horrific treatment she received at the hands of the law, including how prison officials seemed to entice her to escape a final time, with the attempt culminating in her murder.”—Only in Arkansas

Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813030487
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South written by Kenneth J. Bindas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of more than 600 oral histories recalls the Great Depression and provides a rich personal chronicle of the 1930s. The Depression altered the basic structure of American society and changed the way government, business, and the American people interacted. Capturing this historical era and its meaning, the stories in Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South reflect the general despair of the people, but they also reveal the hope many found through the New Deal.

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244180
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America written by John F. Kasson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA Today For four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers, among them J. Edgar Hoover, Andy Warhol, and Anne Frank. Distinguished cultural historian John F. Kasson shows how, amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression, Shirley Temple radiated optimism and plucky good cheer that lifted the spirits of millions and shaped their collective character for generations to come.

Looking for the New Deal

Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036583
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Looking for the New Deal written by Elna C. Green and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rife with palpable misery and often pleading with desperate urgency, the hundreds of letters assembled in Looking for the New Deal paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. Searching for help at a time when desperation overwhelmed America, women in Florida shared the same goal as their counterparts elsewhere in the country - they wanted work. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, these women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters asking for relief assistance from agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials. In this volume Elna C. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The voices of women from all walks of life - black and white, rural and urban, old and young, historically poor and newly impoverished - testify to the determination and ingenuity invoked in facing trying times."--BOOK JACKET.

Dixie's Daughters

Author : Karen L. Cox
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063892
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dixie's Daughters written by Karen L. Cox and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.

Sharecropping in North Louisiana

Author : Lillian Laird Duff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947987036
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Sharecropping in North Louisiana written by Lillian Laird Duff and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Family's history lives and dies according to the dedication of it's storyteller. author Lillian Laird Duff is one such historian and with the encouragement and help of her daughter Linda Duff Niemeir, the stories of this sharecropper's daughter will spark in readers the desire to keep their own family histories alive. Sharecropping in North Louisiana is the true story of the hardships Lillian's family faced during the Great Depression and World War I I. The word-pictures Lillian paints are vivid and will bring to life for readers a time when people were forced to get by with what they had. It will also leave readers hungry for a home-cooked meal, as Lillian recalls food preparation on the farm with such richness and delight that you can almost smell the smoked pork and taste the homemade ice cream and butter. Join Linda in listening to her mother's stories once more.

Little Heathens

Author : Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553384244
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Little Heathens written by Mildred Armstrong Kalish and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp. So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. With her father banished from the household for mysterious transgressions, five-year-old Mildred and her family could easily have been overwhelmed by the challenge of simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of suffering. Kalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had caring grandparents who possessed—and valiantly tried to impose—all the pioneer virtues of their forebears, teachers who inspired and befriended her, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She and her siblings and their cousins from the farm across the way played as hard as they worked, running barefoot through the fields, as free and wild as they dared. Filled with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the world’s best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean), Little Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted; the taste of crystal clear marble-sized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest; the sweet smell from the body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon. Little Heathens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a “hearty-handshake Methodist” family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp.”

A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk

Author : Robert J. Hastings
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809313051
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Nickel's Worth of Skim Milk written by Robert J. Hastings and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois. "People started writing me from all over the country," Hastings notes. "And all said much the same: 'You were writing about my family, as much as your own. That's how I remember the 1930s, too.'" As he proves time and again in this book, Hastings is a natural storyteller who can touch upon the detail that makes the tale both poignant and universal. He brings to life a period that marked every man, woman, and child who lived through it even as that national experience fades into the past.

Crash

Author : Marc Favreau
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 031654583X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Crash written by Marc Favreau and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true story of how real people weathered one of the most turbulent periods in American history—the Great Depression—and emerged triumphant. From the sweeping consequences of the stock market crash to the riveting stories of individuals and communities caught up in a real American dystopia, discover how the country we live in today was built in response to a time when people from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear. Meet fascinating historical characters like Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Dorothea Lange, Walter White, and Mary McLeod Bethune. See what life was like for regular Americans as the country went from the highs of the Roaring Twenties to the lows of the Great Depression, before bouncing back again during World War II. Explore pivotal scenes such as the creation of the New Deal, life in the Dust Bowl, the sit-down strikes in Michigan, the Scottsboro case, and the rise of Father Coughlin. Packed with photographs and firsthand accounts, and written with a keen understanding of the upheaval of the 1930s, Crash shares the incredible story of how America survived—and, ultimately, thrived.

Call Your Daughter Home

Author : Deb Spera
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488095442
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Call Your Daughter Home written by Deb Spera and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood. It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta, and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an emotional, timeless story about the power of family, community, and ferocity of motherhood. “Like Jill McCorkle and Sue Monk Kidd, Spera probes the comfort and strength women find in their own company.” — O, The Oprah Magazine “A mesmerizing Southern tale…Authentic, gripping, a page-turner, yet also a novel filled with language that begs to be savored.” — Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours

North Carolina During the Great Depression

Author :
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413157
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina During the Great Depression written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interviews with survivors of the Depression, the use of photographs taken by Federally supported photographers (many reproduced here) and research into the history of the period, the work provides an accurate and even uplifting portrait of the people of the mountains, piedmont and Coastal areas of North Carolina in the 1930s. The chapters include examinations of the industries and natural resources of North Carolina during the Depression, as well as information on the education, health, population, labor, governorships, housing and entertainment of the time. The effects of the New Deal Programs and other important historic events are discussed. The work includes 200 photographs to complement interviews with North Carolina natives about their experiences, as well as appendices, a bibliography, and an index covering important federal photographers in North Carolina during the Great Depression.

Freedom's Daughters

Author : Lynne Olson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684850125
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Daughters written by Lynne Olson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides portraits and cameos of over sixty women who were influential in the Civil Rights Movement, and argues that the political activity of women has been the driving force in major reform movements throughout history.

Migrant Mother

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756543975
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Mother written by Don Nardo and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother during the Grea Depression.

Anna's Fight for Hope

Author : JoAnn A. Grote
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781593102081
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anna's Fight for Hope written by JoAnn A. Grote and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very personal story shows the beauty of friendship while at the same time teaching important lessons of Christian faith and American history. Readers learn what living through the Great Depression was like.

The Daughters of Yalta

Author : Catherine Grace Katz
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358117852
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book The Daughters of Yalta written by Catherine Grace Katz and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.