The End of “The Protestant Era”?

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Collis Greene
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Church History ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

More than fifty years after delivering the talk “The American Religious Depression, 1925–1935” to the American Society of Church History, Robert Handy is still the default authority on religion and the Great Depression. This is a tribute to his remarkable insights, but it is also an indication that the Depression merits more attention from historians of religion. A number of scholars have taken the religious history of the 1930s seriously. Yet we tend to think of the work of Joel Carpenter, Leo Ribuffo, Alan Brinkley, Beth Wenger, Kenneth Heineman, and others as primarily about fundamentalist institution-building, New Deal demagogues, or Jews and Catholics in New York and Pittsburgh, and only incidentally about the Great Depression.

The Great Depression and the New Deal on Long Island, New York

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Lupinskie-Huvane ◽  
A. Singer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Long Island ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The New Deal

The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression. By Jeff Singleton. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 243. $72.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 290-291
Author(s):  
Robert K. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The Welfare State

In this book, Jeff Singleton provides a detailed history of relief programs prior to and during the Great Depression. He also assesses the obstacles to welfare reform since the 1930s, and he generally argues for more reliance on social insurance and public employment as alternatives to means-tested welfare programs. The book will be of interest to scholars seeking to understand the details and evolution of relief institutions before and during the New Deal, as well as to those interested in the historical origins of modern policy.

scholarly journals ANYBODY LIVING A PRIVATE LIFE IS A BELIEVER IN MONEY. GERTRUDE STEIN, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THE ABSTRACTION OF MONEY

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (60) ◽  
pp. 26-47
Author(s):  
Solveig Daugaard
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of

The article considers Gertrude Stein’s reflections about the increasing abstraction of economics in response to the Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal in a number of explicitly political pieces from the mid-1930s, including “A Political Series” (1935), and her five brief newspaper commentaries on “money”: ”Money”, “More About Money”, “Still More About Money”, “All About Money”, and “My Last About Money” (1936). The article then relates them to Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ideas about the religious implications of the money system that resonate with Stein’s salute to the “believer in money” as security against contemporary authoritarian tendencies. Stein’s opinion pieces argue against taxation, unionism, and public spending, yet also demonstrate the slippery passage between her explicit conservatism, her economic liberalism and her still present radicalism and critique of patriarchal authority as they recycle crucial elements from contemporaneous works such The Geographical History of America (1935) and Everybody’s Autobiography (1937).

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