with the new deal and we have talked about the economic and the political aspects of the great depression, but what i want to do today is to show that the great depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond. just politics and go beyond just the stock market crash and the economic woes. and i m going to try. to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of american culture in the 1930s. how does it affect the family? and again, probably you do and even i do sometimes we just think all the family. is just static throughout history it never changes, but if you stop and think about it even in american history the nature of the family is going to change and it s going to change. rather dramatically in the 1930s the role that religion plays in american history is going to vary from decade to decade from different eras to different eras and there is a surprising development in religion during the 1930s, which some would relate to the great
events in our survey of american history and obviously big events are very important. we have started on one and our last class period that we met. i think last friday we dealt with the new deal and we have talked about the economic and the political aspects of the great depression, but what i want to do today is to show that the great depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond. just politics and go beyond just the stock market crash and the economic woes. and i m going to try. to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of american culture in the 1930s. how does it affect the family? and again, probably you do and even i do sometimes we just think all the family. is just static throughout history it never changes, but if you stop and think about it even in american history the nature of the family is going to change and it s going to change. rather dramatically in the 1930s the role that religion plays in american history is g
we have started on one in our last class period that we meet, i think, last friday we dealt with the new deal and we have talked about the economic and the political aspects of the great depression, but what i want to do today is to show that the great depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond just politics and go beyond just the stock market crash and the economic woes. i am going to try to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of american culture in the 1930s, and how does it affect the family. again, probably you do and even i do sometimes, we just think all the family is just static throughout history and it never changes. if you stop and think about it, even in american history the nature of the family is going to change and it s going to change rather dramatically in the 1930s. the role that religion plays in american history is going to vary from decade to decade from different eras to different eras, and there s a s
university professor kroll abrams teaches a class on american culture during the great depression. he describes changes to family life the role of religion and the rise of hollywood films. he also talks about new deal programs such as the civilian conservation corps and social security. this class is about 50 minutes. prof. abrams: we have talked about big events in our survey of history, and they are obviously important. we have started our one in our last class, i think we met last friday, we dealt with the new deal. we have talked about the economic and political aspects of the great depression. but what i want to do today is to show that the great depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond just politics and the stock market crash. i will try to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of american culture in the 1930 s. how does it affect the family? and again probably you and i think the family is just static throughout his
when we met.riod i think we met last friday, we dealt with the new deal. we have talked about the economic and the political aspects of the great depression. but what i want to do today is to show that the great depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond just politics and go beyond just the stock market crash and the economic woes. and i am going to try to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of american culture in the 1930 s. how does it affect the family? and again, probably you do, and i do sometimes, think the family is just static throughout history. it never changes. but if you stop and think about it, even in american history, the nature of the family is going to change. and it is going to change rather dramatically in the 1930 s. the role that religion plays in american history is going to vary from decade to decade. from different era to different era. and there is a surprising development in religion during the 19