Plunges and a financial panic gripped the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i have but one desire, and that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. This land was made for you and me let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like toledo. And then in 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time, which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. Two successful Infrastructure Projects of the time still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well take you to saint paul where depression gangsters and the corrup
I started with teddy roosevelt, i knew so much had been written about teddy that i needed another story. I got into taft, when i figured out what was the difference between the two and their leadership, it was teddys leadership, and tafts failure of leadership. So i started reading the publications, the magazines, the press, these guys stood at the center and played a single role. Even the best historians writing secondarily, said these people were the vanguard. I didnt know the core, so he came into this life. Roosevelt, taft, and the muckrakers, with the bully pulpit author. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring the history of ann arbor, michigan, it was founded in 1824 but john allen. They recently visited many sites exploring the citys history. Learn more about ann arbor, all weekend, on American History tv. Today youre at the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum in the city of ypsilanti. What we have created here is a museum attempting to tell the automotive history o
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