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A Guide to Chicago's Murals: by Mary Lackritz Gray & Franz Schulze, University of Chicago Press (2001)


A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico: Hoefer, Jacqueline. Sunstone Press, 2003.


A New Plantation South: Land, Labor and Federal Favor in 20th Century Arkansas, Whayne, Jeannie M. University Press of Virginia, 1996. 


A Simple and Vital Design: Indiana Post Office Murals: Carlisle, John C.and Photos by Jones, Darryl.  Indiana Historical Society, 1995.


American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, Gregory, James N. Oxford University, 1991. 


An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, Thomas, Jerry Bruce. University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 


Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943 By Heather Becker (Hardcover - November 2002) Price:31.50



Before the New Deal:
Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930, Green, Elna C. University of Georgia Press, 1999. 

 


Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration: Leighninger, Jr., Robert D. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-945-9.


Conchtown USA: Bahamian Fisherfolk in Riviera Beach, Florida: Folksongs and Tales Collected by Veronica Huss and Photographs & Text by Charles C. Foster. Florida Atlantic University Press, Baca Raton, 1991. Includes 33 1/3 record of the voices of Wilbur Roberts and Mary Jane Roberts as recorded by Stetson Kennedy Jan. 1940. 176 pp.


Depression and the New Deal in Virginia: The Enduring Dominion, Heineman, Ronald L. University Press of Virginia, 1983. 


Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, Worster, Donald. Oxford University Press, 1982. 


Federal Art in Cleveland 1933-43. The Board of Trustees, Cleveland Public Library, 1974.


Forever New Mexico: Heartfelt Images from the Land of Enchantment:  Edited by Arnold Vigil. Published by New Mexico Magazine, 2004. Many FSA photographs in the collection. 128 pp.  


Guided with a Steady Hand: The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park:
Utley, Dan K. et al. Baylor University Press, 1998. 


Hemingway:
the 1930s, Reynolds, Michael. W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Chapter Ten, "The Stricken Field", pgs. 256-7, for an appreciation of Martha Gellhorn during the Depression and New Deal. 


Making the Most of It: Public Works in Albuquerque during the Great Depression-1929-1942. Biebel, Charles D. An Albuquerque Museum History Monograph.1986. 
Native Americans in the 20th Century: James S. Olson and Raymond Wilson.  


New Deal For Art:
The Government Art Projects of the 1930s with Examples from New York City and State, Mark, Marlene and Markowitz, Gerald E. Gallery association of New York State, 1977. 


New Deal in Tennessee, 1932-1938, Minton, John Dean.
Garland Publishers, 1979 (also unavailable). 


New Deal in the Urban South:
Smith, Douglas L. Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 


North Dakota Federal Writers Guidebook:
recently revised.  Information forthcoming.  


Painting on the Left:
Diego Rivera, Radical Politics and San Francisco's Public Murals, Lee, Anthony W. University of California Press, 1999. 


Parks for Texas: Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal: Steely, James Wright. University of Texas Press, 1998. 


Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco and North Carolina: Badger, Anthony J. University of North Carolina, 1980. 


Representative New Mexicans-1912: C.S. Peterson Publishers  


Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispno artists of the New Deal Era: by Tey Marianna Nunn. University of New Mexico Press (2001)


South Carolina and the New Deal:
by Jack Irby Hays, Jr. University of South Carolina Press (2001)


Street Gallery:
Guide to 1,000 Los Angeles Murals, Printright International, Hong Kong, 1993. 


Street Gallery: Guide to 100 Los Angeles Murals:
Dunitz, Robin J., Los Angeles: RJD Enterprises, 1993.


Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression, Martin-Perdue, Nancy J. ed. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.


Tennessee's New Deal Landscape, a Guidebook (2001):
 Dr. C. Van West. This book discusses various waterworks projects across the state of Tennessee. It is a good book in general for anyone interested in the New Deal in Tennessee as it identifies specific elements of the built-environment in the state that were created by New Deal agencies. 


Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (The Working Class in American History):
Irons, Janet Christine. University of Illinois Press, 2000. 


Texans, Politics and the New Deal, Patenaude, Lionel V. Garland Publishers, 1983 (likely unavailable new). 


Texas Oil and the New Deal: Populist Corruption:
Isser, Steve. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 (or--Studies in American History, vol.35--I don't know if the Mellen edition is the Studies edition). 


The New Deal and Beyond:
Social Welfare in the South Since 1930, Green, Elna C., ed. University of Georgia, 2003.


The New Deal in Arizona, Collins, William S. Arizona State Parks Board, 1999. 


The New Deal in New Mexico:
Wm. Pickens, (thesis) univ. unknown  


The New Dealers:
Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt. Schwarz, Jordan A. Vintage Books, 1994. 


The South and the New Deal,
Biles, Roger. University of Kentucky Press, 1994. 


The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People: Parisi, Philip, College Station, TX:
Texas A& M University Press, 2004. 192 pp. Illus. Cloth, $50.


The Utah Writers' Project and Writing of Utah; A Guide to the State: Richard L. Saunders. "Dorothea Lange's Portrait of Utah's Great Depression" James R. Swensen. Utah Historical Quarterly; Winter 2002. Vol. 70 No. 1. 


Thematic Survey of New Deal Era Public Art in Oklahoma 2003-2004: Project #03-401. Greiner, Alyson L and White, Mark A. Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University.


Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals, Foster, Kathleen A.; Contompasis, Margaret; Bloomington Art Museum Indiana University; and Brewer, Nanette Esseck. Indiana University Press, 2001. 


Tobacco and Woodhouse: UNM Press

 
Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture: Flynn, Kathryn A. (Editor). Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1995.


Utah: Then and Now,
Till, Tom. Westcliffe Publishers, 2000. 


With Paintbrush and Shovel: Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers, Kober, Nancy. University Press of Virginia, 2000. 


Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images. Edited by Marta Weigle. Ancient City Press, Santa Fe, NM. 1993. 


Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie. Edited by Tey Diana Rebolledo and Maria Teresa Marquez. Arte Publico Press, 2000. 


WPA: The Legacy of New Deal Work Projects in Indiana: Greiff, Glory-June. glory@indy.net 



The following are for the state of North Dakota:


________.  and Daniel F. Rylance.  The Years of Despair:  North Dakota in the Depression.  Grand Forks, N.D.:  The Oxcart Press, 1973 (third Printing April 1974).


________.  The North Dakota State Capitol:  Architecture and History.  Bismarck:  State Historical Society of North Kakota, 1989.


Bakken, Gordon Morris.  Surviving the North Dakota Depression.  Pasadena, Ca.:
  Wood & Jones, 1992.


Lowitt, Richard.  The New Deal and the West.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1984.


McDean, Harry C. "Federal Farm Policy and the Dust Bowl:  The Half-Right Solution," North Dakota History, Vol. 47 (Summer 1980) pp. 21-31.


Olson, Bonnie Foell.  Lil's Courage.  Fargo:  North Dakota State University Institute for Heritage Press, 1997.


Pederson, Helen Sather.  Prairie Needles:  Poems and Drawings.  Minot, N.D.:  North American Heritage Press, 1997.


Rath, Jan and Keith Rath.  Grandma's Diaries:  The Depression Years in North Dakota.  Harvey, N.D.:  Harvey Public School, 1979.


Remele, Larry, ed.  "The North Dakota Farm Strike of 1932
," North Dakota History, Volume 26 (Fall 1974), pp. 5-19.


Robinson, Elwyn.  History of North Dakota, "Chapter 18-The Thirties:  Drought and Depression."  Fargo:  North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies, 1995 (1996 University of Nebraska Press), pp. 396-419.


Saloutos, Theodore.  "The New Deal and Farm Policy in the Great Plains,"
Agricultural History, Vol. 43 (July 1969), pp. 345-355.


Stock, Catherine McNichol.  Main Street in Crisis:  The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains.  Chapel Hill: 
The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.


Tweton, D. Jerome.  Depression:  Minnesota in the Thirties.  Fargo: 
North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies, 1981.