Reprint. Originally published as v. 1 of Born in slavery: slave narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938...... more

Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen....... more

San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city’s culture, roadside attractions, and hist... more

moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the...... more

Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fiel... more

nationwide series of guides in the 1930s that created work during the Depression for artists, writers, teachers, librarians, and...... more

MPR and TPT personality Cathy Wurzer provides a new introduction to this classic guide to the Arrowh... more

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremel... more

Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress...... more

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana Ronald L... more

The WPA Guide, the first and only guidebook ever devoted to Kansas, was published in 1939. After six... more

First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyo... more

First published in 1939 and never before available in a paperback edition, this remarkable compendiu... more

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create...... more

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create...... more

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create...... more