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      San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America’s Finest City

      Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

      Reveals both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records - tidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma…

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      California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State

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      Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this guide to California includes more than 700 pages of information that is, as the author writes in his…

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      Skiing in the East: Ski Trails and How to Get There

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      WPA Guide to Philadelphia: A Guide to the Nation’s Birthplace

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      This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…

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      Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project

      Susan Rubenstein DeMasi

      During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his…

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      The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide to 1930s Wisconsin

      Norman K. Risjord

      Part of American Guide series, this book offers a tour of Badger State. More than a nostalgic snapshot of 1930s Wisconsin, it contains essays on the state’s history and architecture…

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      Nebraska during the New Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project in the Cornhusker State

      Marilyn Irvin Holt

      Marilyn Irvin Holt examines Nebraska’s contribution to the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other…

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      Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book

      Ann Lacy

      Lost Treasures & Old Mines brims with stories of gold fever, copper ore, and silver mining in the American Southwest.

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      Men at Work: Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project

      Matthew Basso

      This volume brings to the public for the first time thirty-four pieces of fiction that had been written for the Federal Writers’ Project.

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      Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers’ Project in Indiana, 1935-1942

      George T. Blakey

      The story of the New Deal program that produced the first guide to Indiana.

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      Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers’ Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

      Sara Rutkowski

      The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical…

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      Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers’ Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

      Sara Rutkowski

      The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical…

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      Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book

      Ann Lacy

      Between 1850 and 1912, Territorial New Mexico was home to a diverse mix of peoples. Contesting with those who had lived in the region for thousands of years, an array…

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      Stories from Hispano New Mexico: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book

      The fourth volume in the New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book series records authentic accounts of life in the early days of New MexicoNdetailed descriptions of village life, battles with…

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      Stories of New Jersey, Its Significant Places, People and Activities

      Stories of New Jersey is a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of the state. The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New…

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      Stories of New Jersey, Its Significant Places, People and Activities

      Stories of New Jersey is a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of the state. The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New…

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      Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech

      Federal Writers' Project

      In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the…

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      Dark Mirror

      J J Butts

      Demonstrates how Black writers negotiated and revised New Deal ideas through their contributions to the Federal Writers' Project, ultimately introducing a more inclusive, pluralist understanding of American culture and history.

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      American Guides

      Wendy Griswold

      In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate-and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements…

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      American Guides

      Wendy Griswold

      In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate-and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements…

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