Herbert Blumer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was by far one of the most influential presidents to ever walk the face of the earth. Franklin was the democratic candidate who won the 1932 election. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, the pain of the Great depression had already hit, and at least one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. Franklin acted quickly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and tranquility to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the…

The political climate in the United States during the post-World War II era, was based off of rhetoric and propaganda purposely spread by the Truman administration. The goal of influencing Congress and the American people of how real the threat of communism was became apparent with the introduction of the Truman Doctrine. In presenting the doctrine, the President emphatically asked Americans to commit to a world-wide anti-communist movement that continues to guide foreign policy to this day. The…

In order to uncover what one sees in the present, it is imperative to explore the past of the present. Currently, there is a debate on whether immigrants belong in America. The United States of America, also known as the home of the brave and free have encountered this question time and again. In 1919, under the Woodrow administration, Alexander Mitchell Palmer was the Attorney General of the United States. An Attorney General oversees the United States’ citizens. They are known as the…

jobs, and money. Hoovervilles did have a downside, they were soon to spread across the nation which had a cause of major health risks to those who lived in or around Hoovervilles. Hoovervilles lasted from 1929 to 1939 and were named after President Herbert Hoover. The government did not provide help to the people affected, so many blamed Hoover for the Depression and not providing relief. The Great Depression happened because so many people were invested in the stock market so when they heard…

get their money, to face one huge obstacle: the banks did not have any money to give them. This calamitous event started the ear know as the great depression. This decade long event lead to American lives full of hardship and struggle. President Herbert Hoover…

The Great Depression was a grim and distressing time for America in the 1930’s a time of poverty and loneliness. There were many causes of it, but it can be pinpointed to just a few. The stock market, a game of risk, winnings, but mainly losing in the end. Debt, the aftermath of the euphoria of all the so called earnings gained from the stock market. The farm crisis and Dust Bowl, the outcome that came about the innocent farmers’ from the money boom and what the farmers accidentally caused.…

Street led to the devastating Great Depression soon after revealing the flaws within American economy. President Herbert Hoover reacted by primarily depending on voluntary actions. The people reacted to his wage policies pretty negatively because they were ineffective. This affected the presidential election of 1932 because Hoover quickly became unpopular and was running out of ideas. Herbert Hoover challenged the economic depression more than any other president, however he thought that…

It is well known that during the Great Depression there was a large population shift in Texas and other southern states. Specifically, Texas, at the time known most widely for agriculture, experienced a decline in the number of farms as well population. The question presented in this research paper is; how did this population decline affect Texas? Being a primarily agriculturally based economy, it could be argued that this population shift directly reshaped the traditional style of farm life,…

Clinging to lost causes can be cute, but also pathetic. We saw this in Charlottesville. Marchers at the Charlottesville rally paraded around with Confederate flags and Nazi flags. In a chilling NBC News interview, a rabbi described how the marchers reminded him of Nazi marches under Hitler. Nazism lost, as did the Confederacy. Why do people who see themselves as strong and proud cling to the symbols of these lost causes? Lost Cause of Nazism Just a few months ago, my father-in-law and I…

The Descent Into Poverty John F. Kennedy once said, “We can no longer tolerate the growing patches of poverty and injustice in America- substandard wages, unemployment, city slums, inadequate medical care, inferior education and the sad plight of migratory workers.” This was said in the early 1960’s. It has been fifty-seven years, and we are still dealing with the same problems today in Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the country. Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the United…