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The Great Depression: An Overview
Herbert Hoover got many things wrong about the great economic calamity that destroyed his presidency and his historical reputation, but he...
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Women in American Politics in the Twentieth Century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, women were outsiders to the formal structures of political life—voting, serving on juries,...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt—Four-Term President—and the Election of 1944
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to seek a fourth term in 1944, his...
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Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), one of the most admired women in American history, acted as first lady from 1933 until 1945, longer than any other presidential...
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National Industrial Recovery Act
Congress enacted the National Industrial Recovery Act “to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works.” The act was later invalidated by the Supreme Court in the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. the United States in May 1935.
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Twenty-first Amendment
Prohibition ended with the passage of Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Food riots in Minneapolis
In February 1931, the first of many “food riots” across the country broke out when desperate, hungry, and unemployed men and women looted a grocery store in Minneapolis.
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Dorothea Lange documented migrants
Dorothea Lange, hired as a photographer for the Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration), documented the plight of migrant workers in California. Her images were intended to promote New Deal relief programs and became emblematic of the Great Depression.