Resources for Research

The 1930s in Print

Advertisement in the Thirties

• Qualter, Terence H. Advertising and democracy in the mass age / Terence H.Qualter. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
• Norris, James D. Advertising and the transformation of American society, 1865-1920 / James D. Norris. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.
• McAllister, Matthew P. The commercialization of American culture : new advertising, control, and democracy / Matthew P. McAllister. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1995.
• Frank, Thomas (Thomas C.) The conquest of cool : business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism / Thomas Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947- Fables of abundance : a cultural history of advertising in America / by T.J. Jackson Lears. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 1994.

Book Reviews and Literature

• Montefiore, Jan.  Men and women writers of the 1930s : the dangerous flood of history / Janet Montefiore. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
• John Steinbeck: The California Novels
• Pulp Fiction in the Thirties

Comics

• Comics the 9th art [videorecording], West Long Branch, N.J. : White Star, c1990. Clemons Call No.: VIDEO .VHS6546
• Vance, Michael. Forbidden adventures: the history of the American Comics Group, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
• Perry, George. The Penguin book of comics; a slight history, devised by George Perry and Alan Aldridge. Edition: [Rev. ed.], Harmondsworth, Eng., Baltimore, Md., Penguin Books,[1971].
• Steranko. The Steranko history of comics. [Reading, Pa., Supergraphics, 1970-].
• Krazy Cat

Economic Crisis

• Garraty, John Arthur: The Great Depression : an inquiry into the causes, course, and consequences of the worldwide depression of the nineteen-thirties, as seen by contemporaries and in the light of history, 1st ed., San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986.
• Lang, J. T. (John Thomas), 1876-1975. The great bust : the depression of the thirties / J.T. Lang, Katoomba : McNamara's Books, 1980.
• Goldston, Robert C., The great depression : the United States in the thirties / by Robert Goldston. Edition: 1st Fawcett Premier ed., Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Premier Books, 1970, c1968.
• Sternsher, Bernard, Hitting home; the Great Depression in town and country.Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1970.
• The New Deal Network

News and Historical Events

• Hoffman, Sylvan, News of the Nation, a newspaper history of the United States; Sylvan Hoffman, editor; C. Hartley Grattan, associate editor. With a foreword by Allan Nevins. New York, Prentice-Hall [c1943-47].
• The FBI's Famous Cases

Performing Arts, Drama

• Modern drama by women, 1880s-1930s : an international anthology / edited by Katherine E. Kelly. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
• Scharine, Richard G. From class to caste in American drama : political and social themes since the 1930s / Richard G. Scharine. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.

This document was last updated on March 29, 1998.