The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942:
A New Deal Case Study

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Selected Bibliography

I. Unpublished Documents

Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, in National Archives.

Chronological Reference Material by Subjects.

   780(a) Organization.
      (c) Liaison Officers.
   781 Special Enrollee Uniforms.
   782(b) The Forest Service and ECW (typescript).
   783 Soil Erosion.
   784(1) Leaders and Assistant Leaders.
      (4) CCC in Emergencies.
      (7) Military Training.
   785(5) CCC in the Territories.
   787 Public Opinion.
   788(1) Development.
   790 Training.
   791 Permanent CCC.

Appendices I through VI.

   Correspondence of the Director, 1933-1942.
   Minutes of the Advisory Council, 1933-1942.
   Records of the Selection Division.
      (a) Education, General Correspondence.
      (b) Minutes of the Advisory Committee on Education.
      (c) Policy.
      (d) Discussion of Selection Policy, 1935.
      (e) Negro Selection.
      (f) Benefit Letters.
      (g) Discharges.
      (h) Digest of State Reports Concerning Non-Honor able Discharges for Desertion.
   (i) Study of the CCC by the American Youth Commission, 1939-1942 (typescript).
      (j) Military Aspects.
   Public Relations File, Benefit Letters.
   Report of the Special Committee on Education in the CCC, 1939 (typescript).

Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.

(a) Official File.
(b) Private Personal File.

Louis Howe Papers, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Files of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1942—Conservation, in National Archives.

Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1933-1942, in National Archives.


II. Published Documents

Congressional

Amending an Act Establishing a Civilian Conservation Corps, House of Representatives Report No. 447, 76th Congress, First Session (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939).

The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Monograph by the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress, 77th Congress, Second Session, Senate Document 216 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941).

Congressional Directory, 1933-1942.

Congressional Record, 1933-1942.

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, Fiscal Year, 1941, Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, 76th Congress, Third Session, on H.J. Res. 544, A Joint Resolution Making Appropriations for Work Relief and Relief for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1941 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940).

To Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, 75th Congress, First Session, on S. 2102, April 9 and 13, 1937 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937).

To Make the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 75th Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6180, April 14 and 15, 1937 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937).

To Make the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 76th Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2990, Feb. 9, 23, and 24, 1939 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939).

Preliminary Report of the Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, Congress of the United States, 77th Congress, First Session, Document 152 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941).

Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, Congress of the United States, 77th Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941, Parts 1 to 4, Nov. 28, Dec. 1, 2, and 4, 1941 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942).

Termination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration, Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, 77th Congress, Second Session, on S. 2295. A Bill to Provide for the Termination of the National Youth Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, March 23 to April 17, 1942 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942).

Unemployment Relief: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, and the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 73rd Congress, First Session, on S. 598, March 23 and 24, 1933 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933).

Miscellaneous

Handbook of Civilian Conservation Corps, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Region VIII, 1938 (typescript in Duke University Library).

Official Handbook for Agencies Selecting Men for Emergency Conservation Work (Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, 1933-1942).

Report of the Secretary of War to the President, 1933 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933).

Summary Reports of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933-1943).

War Department Regulations, Relief of Unemployment (Washington: War Department, 1933-1937).


III. Newspapers and Periodicals

Baltimore Sun
Boston Evening Transcript
Chicago Tribune
Collier's
Des Moines Register
Greensboro, N.C., News
Happy Days
Literary Digest
New Republic
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
Philadelphia Ledger
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
San Francisco Examiner
Time
Washington Post
Washington Star

Clippings on CCC in National Archives

Atlanta Constitution
Boston Herald
Dallas News
Harrisburg, Pa., News
Indianapolis Star
McKeesport, Pa., News
Madison, Wis., Times
New York Daily News
San Diego Sun
Shreveport, La., Times
Topeka, Kan., Capital
Washington Daily News
Washington Herald
Washington Times Herald


IV. General Works

Bellush, Bernard E. Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955).

Blum, John M. From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of Crisis, 1928-1938 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959).

Bromley, Dorothy E. "The Forest Army that Lives by Work," New York Times, July 23, 1933, section viii, p. 2.

Brown, Nelson C. "The President Has Long Practiced Forestry," New York Times, April 30, 1933, section viii, p. 1.

Burns, James McGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956).

Charles, Searle F. Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1963 ).

Chase, Stuart. "Where the Crop Lands Go: Spendthrift America's Dwindling Estate," Harper's, CXXV (Aug., 1936), 225-233.

The CCC and Wildlife (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939).

The CCC at Work (Washington: Federal Security Agency, 1942).

Deering, Richard L. "Camps for the Unemployed in the Forests of California," Journal of Forestry (May, 1932), 554-557.

Forest Improvements by the CCC (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938).

Forests Protected by the CCC (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939).

Freidel, Frank. Roosevelt: Vol. I, The Apprenticeship; II, The Ordeal; III, The Triumph (Boston: Little, Brown, 1952, 1954, 1956).

Hands to Save the Soil (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939).

Harper, Charles P. The Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps (Clarksburg, W. Va.: Clarksburg Publishing Co., 1939).

Hill, Frank E. "The CCC Marches Toward a New Destiny," New York Times, Feb. 21, 1937, section viii, pp. 10-11.

______. The School in the Camps: The Educational Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps (New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1942).

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1955).

Holland, Kenneth. Youth in European Labor Camps (Washington: American Council of Education, 1939).

Holland, Kenneth, and Frank E. Hill. Youth in the CCC (Washington: American Council of Education, 1942).

Ickes, Harold L. The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: Vol. I, The First Thousand Days; II, The Inside Struggle, 1936-1939 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953, 1954).

James, William. Memories and Studies (New York: Longmans, 1912).

Johnson, Donald B. The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1960).

Leighton, George R., and Richard Hillman. "Half Slave, Half Free: Unemployment, the Depression, and American Young People," Harper's, CXXIII (Aug., 1935), 342-353.

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 (New York: Harper and Row, 1963).

Lindley, Ernest K. Half-way with Roosevelt (New York: Viking Press, 1937).

Link, Arthur S. American Epoch (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1955).

McKinney, Guy D. "An Army in the Forests," Natural History, XXIV (Feb., 1934), 141-150.

Mitchell, Jonathan. "Roosevelt's Tree Army," New Republic, LXXXIII (May 29, 1935; June 12, 1935), 64-66, 127-129.

Moley, Raymond. After Seven Years (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939).

Nixon, Edgar B. (ed.) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (New York: General Services Administration, 1957).

Perkins, Dexter. The New Age of Franklin Roosevelt, 1932-1945 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).

Perkins, Frances. The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: Viking Press, 1946).

Rauch, Basil. The History of the New Deal, 1932-1938 (New York: Creative Age Press, 1944).

Rawick, George P. "The New Deal and Youth: The Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, the American Youth Congress." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1957.

Riesch, Anna L. "Conservation Under Franklin D. Roosevelt." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1952.

Roberts, Stephen H. The House that Hitler Built (London: Methuen, 1937).

Rollins, Albert B. Roosevelt and Howe (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1962).

Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949).

Rosenman, Samuel I. (ed.) The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York: Macmillan, 1938-1950).

Saalberg, John J. "Roosevelt, Fechner, and the CCC—A Study in Executive Leadership." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1962.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Roosevelt: Vol. I, The Crisis of the Old Order; II, The Coming of the New Deal; III, The Politics of Upheaval (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957, 1959, 1960).

Stiles, Leila. The Man Behind Roosevelt (Cleveland: World, 1954).

Tugwell, Rexford Guy. The Democratic Roosevelt (New York: Doubleday, 1957).

Wandall, Luther C. "A Negro in the CCC," Crisis, XLII (Aug., 1935), 244-253.

Wechter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1948).

Wirth, Conrad L. The Civilian Conservation Corps Program of the United States Department of the Interior (Chicago: Merchandise Mart, 1944).

Wolfskill, George. The Revolt of the Conservatives: A History of the American Liberty League, 1934-1940 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).


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