¹ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

² Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

⁴ Current unemployment data available from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Latest Numbers," http://www.bls.gov.

⁵ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

⁶ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

⁷ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 102.

⁸ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 98.

⁹ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963}, 10.

¹⁰ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 101.

¹¹ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 104.

¹² David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 134.

¹³ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963}, 44.

¹⁴ "The Roosevelt Week," Time (20 March 1933), available online at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745344-2,00.html

¹⁵ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 254.

¹⁶ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 276.

¹⁷ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 277.

¹⁸ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 210.

¹⁹ Lorena Hickok et. al., One Third Of A Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (U. of Illinois, 1981), 154.

²⁰ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

²¹ “Eleanor Roosevelt: ‘First Lady to the World,’” Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/erbio.html, accessed 9 January 2009.

²² William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963).

²³ William E. Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal ((Harper & Row, 1963}, 44.

²⁴ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 276.

²⁵ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 98.

²⁶ "The Roosevelt Week," Time (20 March 1933), available online at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745344-2,00.html

²⁷ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 102.

²⁸ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 101.

²⁹ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 276.

³⁰ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 210.

³¹ David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford, 1999), 104.