What 1930s Radicals Totally Knew
Scott Borchert on the Federal Writers' Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9197790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Borchert, Susie Day |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 49-59 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-073-10-2022-03_5 |
| OpenAlex | W4214876005 |
| Language | EN |
The Great Depression is almost one century old. Today in the United States we remember this international economic collapse, and the suffering it engendered, by reading novels and essays about it, watching plays, viewing paintings—often forgetting that the U.S. government of that time encouraged and financially supported much of this art. Not only art: the Depression was one of the few times that the federal government ever stepped in to help ordinary people get on their feet
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Depression (economics) · Economic history · Economics · Forgetting · Government (linguistics) · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Linguistics · Painting · Political economy · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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