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A Time Travelers Guide to New YorkWPA's take on the big cityby Elenared more |
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Through the Looking GlassHow Images Characterized the Depressionby Elenared more |
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Marketing LeisureDesigning the American Lifestyleby Elenared more |
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Legacy of the Great DepressionThe Great Depression has left a lasting impression on American consciouness by austinjenkins The memory of the Great Depression is ingrained in American consciousness of a period of great suffering when everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Everything remembered of the 1930s in someway can never escape the mark of the depression. Wars and other national...more |
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Caught in between very different worlds In Waiting for Nothing Kromer's writing style is characteristic of his unique social postion by austinjenkins
In On the Fritz: Tom Kromer's “Imaging of the Machine” Hugh Crawford sites the reasons behind the style of Kromer’s writing in Waiting for Nothing. He compares the technological advancement with the shift to a more efficient,...more |
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Steinbeck Country The impact of Salinas on Steinbeck's writings by austinjenkins John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas has served as the setting for several of his novels and has strongly influenced his works. Since the late 1860s Salinas has been an important agricultural city in California located in the heart of the state’s farm country. The Salinas...more |
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Singing the Blues: Bessie Smith during the Great DepressionThe legandary Blue singer's struggle during the Great Depression reflects the end of the Jazz Age by austinjenkins The abrupt end of the Jazz Age with the stock market crash of 1929 saw the end of some of the most talented musicians of that era. Among them was Bessie Smith one of the most innovative Jazz-Blues singers of all times. Encountering great success during the 1920s,...more |
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The family unit during the Great DepressionThe families had very different experiences during the Great Depressionby austinjenkins In the Grapes of Wrath the strength of the Joad family’s survival can be in large part attributed to the strength they gain from experiencing their hardships together. As they journey to California others become included in their familial unit. The pastor Casey is a...more |
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Sadness, Exploitation, and StoriesIs American individualism good or bad--or is the story more complicated than that?by Christian
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Smile Though your Heart is BreakingOptimism in Today's Economic Climateby AudreyF What’s wrong with a little optimism? Is it really wrong to try to look up during times that are so down?
For example, at my job, there are days when the café gets so busy that the entire staff is on its feet for several hours at a time. There is constant rushing around and sometimes...more |
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Wellesley, Massachusetts“A Most Attractive Residential Town”by Will For my examination of the WPA travel guides I examined the section in the Massachusetts guide pertaining to my hometown of Wellesley. Having spent 18 years growing up and living life in that town I thought it would be interesting to look at how life in suburbia had changed since the depression era and what had stayed the...more |
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Massachusetts or Bust!A Guide to the Commonwealthby Haley
The first thing I did upon opening the guide was search for any mention of my town. Nary a word, despite 600 plus pages of information. Poor Lancaster. Once I got over that vast oversight, I read about surrounding areas and found a remarkable amount of similarities regarding tourism today. The main draw to...more |
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That's Where I Live!Restoring America's prideby Christian When I first saw I had the opportunity to flip through old tour guides for each of the states, I went right for the Massachusetts book. No, not because I wanted to find my own hometown there—I’ve long ago given up the hope that the bustling metropolis that is North Reading, MA might get the tourist...more |
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What Do We Do Now?Struggling for identity in the Great Recessionby Christian So far in class we’ve discovered a great deal about travel in the Depression. What has surprised me the most is the way that so many authors saw that the travel novel spoke to America’s troubles in searching for an identity. I believe that this lack of identity was central to the zeitgeist of the...more |
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One Day at a TimeThe survivalist mindset of a stiffby Christian In recent readings, we’ve learned about the life of Depression-Era hoboes from the likes of Edward Anderson and Woody Guthrie, among others. These authors vividly detailed the experiences of a segment of the population with whom most readers are unfamiliar. They gave a sense of heroism to the vagabond lifestyle...more |
