T. H. Watkins, "The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America." Just out in pb. (Lousy search engine at bn.com, type in T.H. Watkins, no hit on this book, type in Great Depression, voila. Once I typed in "Communism" got hundreds of hits for Biblical exegesis.None from Orbis Books on Liberation Theology, mind you.) "Essays on the Great Depression, " by Ben S. Bernanke, Princeton Univ. Press, 2000. Have no idea of this authors slant. Watkins appears liberal. Brinkley below is left-liberal. His essays collected recently in a volume from Harvard Univ. Press are a good read, as is his older one on Father Coughlin and Huey Long. (BTW on Coughlin, see also, "Radio Priest, " from Donald Warren, who also has an earlier work on "Middle American Radicals". And from the Radical History Review list at the H-Net. Michael Pugliese
From: Marie Ellen Noonan <men8572 at nyu.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:16:52 -0500
ANNOUNCEMENT=97ALAN BRINKLEY MODERATES A WEB=20 FORUM ON TEACHING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW=20 DEAL AT HISTORYMATTERS.GMU.EDU
Starting April 1, 2001, Alan Brinkley will moderate a month-long=20 open discussion on teaching about the Great Depression and=20 New Deal on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site=20 (http://historymatters.gmu.edu). From the HISTORY MATTERS=20 home page select "Talking History" then select "Depression-New=20 Deal" under Current Forums. To subscribe, choose "Join or leave=20 list."
Professor Brinkley will answer questions and lead a discussion=20 on teaching about the Great Depression and New Deal. The=20 discussion will focus particularly on approaches to teaching these=20 topics in U.S. history survey courses at the high school and=20 college levels and include suggestions for resources or=20 strategies.
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia=20 University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. His=20 published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father=20 Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the=20 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise=20 History of the American People (Knopf, 1992, 1997); The End of=20 Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf,=20 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is=20 presently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce, to be published by=20 Alfred A. Knopf. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in=20 scholarly journals and periodicals such as the New Yorker, the=20 New York Times Magazine, and the New Republic. Prior to=20 teaching at Columbia, Brinkley taught at Harvard, where he was=20 awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize.
HISTORY MATTERS is a gateway to the Web for teachers of the=20 U.S. History Survey course. It provides high school and college=20 teachers (and their students) a starting point for exploring=20 American history on the Web with a large number of first-person=20 historical documents for use in the classroom, an extensive=20 annotated list of Web links, and a range of teaching resources=20 (sample syllabi, teaching assignments, and forums, for example).=20 HISTORY MATTERS is a project of the American Social History=20 Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New=20 York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason=20 University. The HISTORY MATTERS Web site was created with=20 support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the National=20 Endowment for the Humanities. The site is an in-progress=20 prototype that will be expanding over the next two years.
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