Primary Sources for U.S. History 1920s and 1930s.
Printed collections of documents: (examples) Search in BearCat for many others
- Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : letters from children of the Great Depression E 807.1.R48 D43 2002
- Americans remember the home front : an oral narrative. E 806 .A642 Depression, recovery, and war, 1929-1945. E173 .D58 vol. 7. & Progressivism and postwar disillusionment, 1898-1928 E173 .D58 vol. 6 (A documentary history of American life)
- New Deal thought / edited by Howard Zinn. E 806 .N49 1966
- Major problems in American women’s history : documents and essays. HQ1410.M34 2003
- Public paper and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. E 806.R749. 13 vols.
- The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. E 802.H7 3 vols.
- United States in World Affairs. E 744.U66 1931-- (annual)
Newspapers: There are many sources for digitized newspaper content. See the library web page for “Newspapers” - http://wwwx.potsdam.edu/library/home/Articles_Newspapers.php
The New York Times on microfilm (1851-date), and the New York Times Index (Ref AI 21.N45). And for local history, the Northern New York Historical Newspapers, a searchable digital collection.
Popular magazines: You can find in Crumb Library quite a few magazines from the period of the 1920s and 1930s. Some are in the stacks with call numbers beginning AP2. Many popular magazines from this period are indexed in the paper index called Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature – in Ref AI 3.R48
Among those available on paper are: (those marked * are indexed in Readers' Guide for the 1920s and 1930s)
- Century * - AP2 .C4; (1875-1929) – issues, reform
- Forum *- AP2.F8 (1897-1940) politics, issues
- Harper's Magazine * -AP2.H3 (1913-- )– soc,lit.
- Independent * - AP 2.I53 (1898-1928) relig, pol.
- Life * - AP2.L547; (1936-72) illus. events
- Literary Digest * - AP2.L58 (1916-38) events
- Living Age * - AP 2.L65 (1897-1941) eclectic
- Mentor * - AP2.M417 (1921-30) arts, travel, illus.
- Messenger AP2.M43 (1917-28) afro-am.
- Nation * - AP2.N2 (1868 -- ) events, politics
- New Republic * AP 2.N624 (1935-- ) events
- Outlook * - AP2.O6 (1900-35) politics, religion
- Scribner’s * - AP2.S4 (1887-1939) lit. events, illus.
- Time * - AP 2.T37 (1933-- ) – events, illus.
- Vanity Fair - AP2.V32; (1914-36) fashion, arts
- World's Work * - AP2.W8 (1908-32) events
U.S. Government Documents:
- Congressional Record in paper in Crumb Library: 1789 - 1976 (at J11.- )
- United States Reports, Supreme Court : cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. (KF 101) 1789 - date. (bound volumes run several years behind)
- Document Catalog (i.e. Catalog of Public Documents, 1893-1940). Ref Z 1223.A13.
- Foreign relations of the U.S. – official documents http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
- Peace and War: United States foreign policy, 1931-1941. E 744.U46 1943b
Use BearCat to find other US Docs from the 1920s and 30s. One method is to combine searching by document type and year: dt=US doc and limit by decade
Online collections of documents:
Alexander Street Press: http://wwwx.potsdam.edu/library/home/AlexStreetPress.php
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories. Includes documents from colonial times to 1950. There are 581 documents for the period 1926-1936.
- North American Women’s Letters and Diaries.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from colonial times to the present
Others