Add to ORKGWhen Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region\u27s economy was the weakest, its educational level the lowest, its politics the most rigid, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Moreover, the region was prostrate from the effects of the Great Depression. Roosevelt\u27s New Deal effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the southern way of life. At the same time, firmly entrenched values and institutions militated against change and blunted the impact of federal programs. In The South and the New Deal, Roger Biles examines the New Deal\u27...
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Re...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
This dissertation examines the political and administrative history of the Farm Security Administrat...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvanta...
This book examines some of the most significant social and economic difficulties confronting south F...
Article in the George Washington University MagazineIllustration by Bill L'Hommedieu [image credit] ...
The New Deal and World War II caused profound political and socioeconomic change at the national lev...
Within the text of the National Emergency Council’s 1938 Report on the Economic Conditions of the So...
The New Deal and World War II caused profound political and socioeconomic change at the national lev...
Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and Wo...
On April 8, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. Under the aut...
In 1949 the great political scientist V.O. Key averred regarding Southern politics, "In its grand ou...
Many state and local case studies of the New Deal tended to be interested in state government, local...
The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s....
In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty...
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Re...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
This dissertation examines the political and administrative history of the Farm Security Administrat...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvanta...
This book examines some of the most significant social and economic difficulties confronting south F...
Article in the George Washington University MagazineIllustration by Bill L'Hommedieu [image credit] ...
The New Deal and World War II caused profound political and socioeconomic change at the national lev...
Within the text of the National Emergency Council’s 1938 Report on the Economic Conditions of the So...
The New Deal and World War II caused profound political and socioeconomic change at the national lev...
Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern political life since the New Deal and Wo...
On April 8, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. Under the aut...
In 1949 the great political scientist V.O. Key averred regarding Southern politics, "In its grand ou...
Many state and local case studies of the New Deal tended to be interested in state government, local...
The Great Depression and the New Deal touched the lives of almost every Kentuckian during the 1930s....
In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty...
On 21 December 1886, Southern editor Henry W. Grady gave a speech at New York\u27s Delmonico\u27s Re...
Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedeviled the U.S. South, even before the agricultural dep...
This dissertation examines the political and administrative history of the Farm Security Administrat...