scholarly journals The Great Depression in High School Social Science Textbooks : Critiques and Suggestions

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-210
Author(s):  
김두얼
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
The Great Depression

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Literature And Law ◽  
The Law

This introductory essay broadly describes the connections between money, literature, and law that are explored in greater depth in each chapter of the volume. It explains the chronological parameters of the volume, the period framed by the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression. Money and literature are both useful interpretive tools for understanding the law, and all three, especially when working together, allow for greater understanding of human society. The introduction gives a brief description of each chapter but also foreshadows the themes that recur throughout the volume and directs the reader’s attention to the interaction between storytelling and social science.

Reconsidering Schools and the American Welfare State

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Cohen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Education Department ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
American Way ◽  
Mary Kelly

Recalling her experience as an exchange teacher in Birmingham, England, in 1938-39, in the midst of the Great Depression, Oregon teacher Mary Kelly, wrote:When I witnessed the first ‘leaving’ day … in one of the Birmingham schools and learned that as soon as the majority of the English children were fourteen they were through with regular schooling forever, I almost shed tears.“Do you mean that those girls will never go to high school?” I asked.“Yes it is true.”“Will they have jobs or will they be idle?”“The Education Department will place most of them in positions in homes, shops or factories ….”There were no graduation exercises, no lovely new dresses, no parents or relatives invited. I thought of my high-school graduation, which possibly would never have been if education was not free, because the means were limited. Still another graduation after going through college on nothing a year permitted me to take up teaching … . To me, at that moment, there was nothing more precious than democracy and I mean the American way.

Sex Researcher

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Susan G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
York City ◽  
Book Design ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Literary Publishing ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
Police Raid

In the years 1934-40, Gershon Legman defined his life’s work and taught himself the skills he would use in his richly productive research career. Moving to New York City after graduating high school, at the height of the Great Depression, he tried to make a career for himself as a writer about sex. Legman was taken on as a sex researcher and bibliographer for the eminent gynecologist Robert L. Dickinson. He also worked as a book scout and courier in underground erotica publishing, shuttling merchandise around for the book dealer Frances Stellof. He learned printing, layout, binding, and book design in the workshop of Jacob Brussel. His first publication as a folklorist, a glossary of homosexual slang, was researched with Thomas Painter for the Committee on Sex Variants, under Dr. Dickinson’s auspices. Also, during these years, Legman aimed to shatter the censorship barriers in literary publishing. He worked as a dollar-a-page pornographer, impersonating Henry Miller, among others. With Brussel, he brought out the first American edition of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and under a pseudonym published his own first book, Oragenitalism, a treatise on oral sex. Both volumes were highly illegal, and when they were seized in a police raid, Legman barely escaped arrest.

Remaking the Heartland

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Wuthnow
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Objective Observer ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Middle West

For many Americans, the Middle West is a vast unknown. This book sets out to rectify this. It shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the Great Depression and the movement of residents to other parts of the country. It examines the heartland's reinvention throughout the decades and traces the social and economic factors that have helped it to survive and prosper. The book points to the critical strength of the region's social institutions established between 1870 and 1950—the market towns, farmsteads, one-room schoolhouses, townships, rural cooperatives, and manufacturing centers that have adapted with the changing times. It focuses on farmers' struggles to recover from the Great Depression well into the 1950s, the cultural redefinition and modernization of the region's image that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, the growth of secondary and higher education, the decline of small towns, the redeployment of agribusiness, and the rapid expansion of edge cities. Drawing arguments from extensive interviews and evidence from the towns and counties of the Midwest, the book provides a unique perspective as both an objective observer and someone who grew up there. It offers an accessible look at the humble yet strong foundations that have allowed the region to endure undiminished.

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