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Articles with keyword "Depression era"

A farmer digs through drifting sand in Oklahoma

Feature

Children of the Dust

The Dirty Thirties as witnessed by people who were actually there.

Conversation

The Revisionist

Writer Amity Shlaes talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her take on the Great Depression.

Image of Morris Dickstein

Conversation

Reading Into the Great Depression

Critic Morris Dickstein talks about the culture of the thirties and the demise of theory.

Fellow WPA writers in 1930s Oklahoma City: Paskavan, L’Amour, Thompson

Feature

Soul of a Writer

Jim Thompson found the makings of a new and gritty style working on the Oklahoma State Guide.

Image of family in Shawnee, Kansas.

Statement

A Common Story

Kansans tell their diverse stories.

Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition

Feature

Enchanting Reality

World's fairs during the Depression.

Eudora Welty's photograph of child and kite

Statement

Southern Exposure

Eudora Welty's photographs reveal new stories in Alabama.