Part 1 Introduction: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Liberalism 1 --
Hyde Park to Washington 3 --
Waning of Reform, 1937-1940 16 --
Liberals at War, 1941-1945 24 --
1. FDR as President 39 --
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 39 --
First Press Conference, March 8, 1933 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 44 --
Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 47 --
Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 53 --
Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 58 --
Speeches on Conservation and the Environment, 1936-1937 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 64 --
National Labor Relations Act, February 21, 1935 / Robert F. Wagner 68 --
Social Security Act, September 2, 1935 / Frances Perkins 72 --
Crisis in Agriculture, September 12, 1936 / John Steinbeck 77 --
Federal Relief, September 19, 1936 / Harry Hopkins 83 --
Federal Theatre Project, May 11, 1938 / Hallie Flanagan 89 --
3. Eleanor Roosevelt and American Women 93 --
Women in the Labor Force, June 16, 1938 / Eleanor Roosevelt 93 --
Women and the New Deal, April 8, 1936 / Molly Dewson 99 --
Women in Politics, March-April 1940 / Eleanor Roosevelt 103 --
4. Documenting the Depression: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange 108 --
Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936 109 --
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 110 --
Mexican Migratory Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 111 --
Small Independent Gas Station during Cotton Strike, Kern City, California, November 1938 112 --
5. Right and Left Face 114 --
Challenge to Liberty, 1934 / Herbert Hoover 114 --
New Deal vs. Democracy, July 15, 1936 / American Liberty League 117 --
EPIC Plan, 1934 / Upton Sinclair 120 --
National Union for Social Justice, November 11, 1934 / Father Charles E. Coughlin 122 --
Share Our Wealth, May 23, 1935 / Huey P. Long 126 --
6. Race, Ethnicity, and Reform 133 --
Songs of the Mexican Migration: Deported [Deportados], 1933 133 --
Pecan Shellers of San Antonio, 1940 / Selden Menefee, Orin C. Cassmore 136 --
NAACP and Segregation, January-February 1934 / W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White 142 --
March on Washington, November 1942 / A. Philip Randolph 147 --
A New Deal for American Indians, 1938 / John Collier 151 --
Voice of a Navajo Indian, April 10, 1934 / J.C. Morgan 156 --
7. Constitutional Revolution 161 --
United States v. Butler, January 6, 1936 / Owen Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone 161 --
Unpacking the Court, February 13, 1937 / Robert M. La Follette Jr. 169 --
A Greatly Dangerous Precedent, July 19, 1937 / Herbert H. Lehman 173 --
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, March 29, 1937 / Charles Evans Hughes, George Sutherland 175 --
Helvering v. Davis, May 24, 1937 / Benjamin N. Cardozo 180 --
8. Morale in Wartime: A Portfolio of Propaganda Posters 184 --
United We Win, 1943 / U.S. War Manpower Commission 185 --
Do the Job HE Left Behind, 1943 / U.S. Employment Service 186 --
Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning! 1942 / Packer Aircraft 188 --
Buy Victory Bonds, 1945 / U.S. Treasury Department 189 --
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry, April 30, 1942 / Western Defense Command 191 --
Footprints: Poetry of the American Relocation Camp Experience, ca. 1942-1944 194 --
Korematsu v. United States, December 18, 1944 / Hugo Black, Frank Murphy 197 --
Debate about the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, May 20, 1943 / Pearl S. Buck, A. Leonard Allen 204 --
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, June 14, 1943 / Robert Jackson, Felix Frankfurter 211 --
Report to the Secretary [of the Treasury] on then Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews, January 13, 1944 / Randolph Paul 219 --
Debate about the Bombing of Auschwitz, July-November 1944 / John W. Pehle, John J. McCloy 221 --
Race, Religion, and Prejudice, May 11, 1942 / Eleanor Roosevelt 224 --
An Economic Bill of Rights, January 11, 1944 / Franklin D. Roosevelt 226.