In a study of Lou Henry Hoover's White House years from 1929-1933, the author draws on Lou Hoover's personal papers to show that she was a transitional figure between nineteenth- and twentieth-century
During World War II, moderate lawmakers in the US Congress, positioned in the middle of the vituperative partisanship dividing hardcore conservatives and liberal New Dealers, successfully worked to co
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Nine essays originally presented at a September 1995 conference at Louisiana State University examine Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal era from the perspectives of social and cultural histor
Texas, Her Texas is the fascinating story of Frances Goff and her three remarkable careers: in Texas government as legislative aide and State Budget Director; at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson
How did Americans respond to the economic catastrophe of 1929? In what ways did the social and cultural responses of the American people inform the politics of the period? How did changes in political
