PODCAST: HISTORY UNPLUGGED
J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech…
Was the New Deal a success? Many believe it was, as it helped America overcome the calamitous stock market crash of October 1929 brought the prosperous 1920s to a dramatic end (Real GNP per capita fell by 30 percent between 1929 and 1933). The post-World War 2 era of prosperity…
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a key feature of the New Deal. FDR proposed to pay farmers for cutting back on production or producing nothing at all. The decrease in supply, he believed, would raise farm prices. But in the meantime, he had to deal with the existing bounty. The…
