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Power and culture

the Japanese- American War, 1941-1945
1981
A reappraisal of the wartime relationship that considers the cultural perspectives between Japan and America.

America 1933

the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the shaping of the New Deal
During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

Projekt 1065

2016
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.

The roaring twenties

2003
Reenactments, readings, and interviews explore major events of the 1920s including the automobile culture, the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age, and prohibition.

The roaring twenties

2007
Explores the enormous social and cultural changes that took place in the United States during the 1920s.

One summer

America, 1927
Bryson examines closely the events and personalities of the summer of 1927 when America's story was one of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy.

The roaring twenties

discover the era of Prohibition, flappers, and jazz
2014
Explores the convergence of cultural, historical, and economic factors that made the 1920s one of history's most pivotal eras, inviting readers to contemplate the influences ranging from jazz music and Prohibition to racial intolerance and the stock market crash.

The forgotten man

a new history of the Great Depression
2014
A graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression which focuses on the economic realities and the largely forgotten individuals and events that influenced the period, asserting that the government made the Depression "great" by overlooking the men and women who were trying to help themselves.

Hidden gold

a true story of the Holocaust
2015
A novel based on a true story that follows a family as they navigate through the perils of Poland during the start of World War II.

The Great Depression

Examines the Great Depression, including the events leading up to it, what it was like during that time, and how the New Deal revived the economy.

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