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Modernity and the Great Depression explores how the worst economic, social, and political crisis in the last century created the space for a national conversati

Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and

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An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America