What's New (past months)
Center for New Deal Studies

Fall 2002

Margaret Rung is our new CND Director

Margaret Rung is an Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of History. She received her BA from Oberlin College in 1985 and her MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Her interests are Twentieth century, U.S., political history, labor and the New Deal.

Chicago Labor Oral History Project

This project began in the 1970s, when Roosevelt University Professor Elizabeth Balanoff received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a series of interviews in the Chicago area with people involved in the labor movement.  The result was 100 interviews, totaling 8000 transcribed pages, many of interest to those researching the New Deal.

In 2001, we applied for, and received a grant from the Illinois State Library to Digitize these papers and make them available on our web site. We are now in the process of making that happen.

New Books

Due to a changeover in the catalog computersystem, there will be a delay in adding new books to the collection. See "News From Previous Months" for the latest additions to our holdings.

New Journals

• American Architect and Architecture  October 1936
• Architectural Record  Vol. 80, No.6. December, 1936
• Inland Printer  June 1930

Books for 2002

January

Great speeches
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
E742.5 .R65 1999

The critical press and the New Deal
Best, Gary Dean
E806 .B493 1993

And a time for hope
McGovern, James R
E806 .M45 2000

Federal art and national culture
Harris, Jonathan
N8838 .H37 1995

The true story of Fala
Suckley, Margaret
YOUTH. E 807 .S83 1997

February

African American women and social action
Cash, Floris Loretta Barnett
E185.86 .C33 2001

Goldberg: New Deal liberal
Stebenne, David
E840.8.G57 S74 1996

March

Historical dictionary of the Great Depression
E801 .H57 2001

Texas oil and the New Deal
Isser, Steve
HD9567.T3 I87 2001