Federal Emergency Relief Administration/Bibliography

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A list of key readings about Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
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Bibliography

  • Bremer William W. "Along the American Way: The New Deal's Work Relief Programs for the Unemployed." Journal of American History 62 (December 1975): 636-652. online at JSTOR
  • Brock William R. Welfare, Democracy and the New Deal (1988), a British view
  • Charles, Searle F. Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression (1963)
  • Hopkins, June. "The road not taken: Harry Hopkins and New Deal Work Relief." Presidential Studies Quarterly 29, 2(306-316). online edition
  • Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Federal Relief Policy (1943)

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  • Meriam; Lewis. Relief and Social Security The Brookings Institution. (1946). Highly detailed analysis and statistical summary of all New Deal relief programs; 900 pages online edition
  • Mertz, Paul. New Deal Policy and Southern Rural Poverty. (1978)
  • Sautter, Udo. "Government and Unemployment: The Use of Public Works before the New Deal," The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jun., 1986), pp. 59-86 in JSTOR
  • Sautter, Udo. Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment before the New Deal (1992) excerpt and text search
  • Singleton, Jeff. The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (2000) online edition; also excerpt and text search
  • Sternsher, Bernard. Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal (1964) online edition
  • Venkataramani, M. S. "Norman Thomas, Arkansas sharecroppers, and the Roosevelt agricultural policies, 1933–1937." Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1960) 47: 225–46. in JSTOR
  • Williams; Edward Ainsworth Federal Aid for Relief (1939) online edition


Primary sources

  • Hopkins, Harry L. Spending to save: the complete story of relief. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1936.
  • Kirk, J.S. ed.Emergency Relief in North Carolina a Record of the Development and the Activities of the North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration 1932-1935 (1936) 544pp; complete text online
  • McElvaine, Robert S. Down & out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983); letters to Harry Hopkins; online edition