USH: The Crash, Depression & New Deal Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:25:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Lecture: Hard Times in the Great Depression: Challenges to American Ambition https://daniellazar.com/2020/06/29/lecture-hard-times-in-the-great-depression-challenges-to-american-ambition/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:14:07 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=8813 Lecture Outline: -The Numbers-The Better Angels of Our Nature-“Natural” Disasters, Manmade Disasters & Exodus-The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover-The 1932 Election

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]]> Confidence, a Depression-era cartoon starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit https://daniellazar.com/2020/05/12/confidence-a-depression-era-cartoon-starring-oswald-the-lucky-rabbit/ Tue, 12 May 2020 20:57:06 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5962 This is a cartoon from 1933, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Oswald was originally created by Walt Disney. By the time this cartoon was made, he belonged to Walter Lantz, who went on to create Woody Woodpecker. Confidence shows the effects of the Depression and what people need to get past it.

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]]> FDR's War Against the Press https://daniellazar.com/2017/07/10/fdrs-war-against-the-press/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:01:42 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5722 In the 1936 election, Roosevelt claimed that 85 percent of the newspapers were against him….Roosevelt’s relationship with radio was warmer. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, revised the media rules in profound ways. Like Trump, he feuded with the mainstream media; like Trump, he used a new medium as a direct pipeline to the people. He also used … Continue reading FDR's War Against the Press →

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]]> New Deal Sales Pitch https://daniellazar.com/2017/02/07/new-deal-sales-pitch/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 06:08:10 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5641 You have been assigned a New Deal program to “sell” to your classmates. Your task is to inform and persuade in equal measure. Don’t neglect your duty to inform. This is school, after all. Read about your New Deal program. You can’t sell a product that you don’t know thoroughly. Knowledge breeds confidence. Teach your … Continue reading New Deal Sales Pitch →

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]]> FDR's Second Bill of Rights https://daniellazar.com/2016/01/31/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:55:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5486 During President Roosevelt’s January 11, 1944 message to the Congress of the United States on the State of the Union, he said the following: It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living … Continue reading FDR's Second Bill of Rights →

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]]> NPR Fresh Air – America's Forgotten History Of Mexican-American 'Repatriation' https://daniellazar.com/2015/11/03/npr-fresh-air-americas-forgotten-history-of-mexican-american-repatriation/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:56:14 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5408 With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

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]]> Summative Table: FDR's New Deal https://daniellazar.com/2013/05/30/summative-table-fdrs-new-deal/ Thu, 30 May 2013 17:22:30 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4547 This table summarizes the New Deal programs we will address in class. It also offers some arguments for/against each program. Spend some time wrapping your head around the scope of the New Deal reforms.

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]]> Intro to the Black Chicago Renaissance https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/28/intro-to-the-black-chicago-renaissance/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:19:35 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4296 This is a good place to get started. It’s the intro chapter to a groundbreaking book on the BCR.

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]]> PBS Am Experience: Amelia Earhart https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/17/pbs-am-experience-amelia-earhart/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:53:37 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4199 The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Earhart disappeared in 1937 while she was attempting to circumnavigate the world by airplane.

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]]> The New New Deal https://daniellazar.com/2012/08/25/the-new-new-deal/ Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:18:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3725 Michael Grunwald, a Time magazine correspondent, this week publishes The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, a gripping account of President Obama’s stimulus bill. Grunwald writes that the stimulus has transformed America—and American politics—in ways that we have failed to recognize. Read an interview with Grunwald

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