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Special Collections — Great Depression Resources

This guide describes a variety of materials from the CUA archives and rare books library pertaining to Catholic responses to the Great Depression (ca. 1929-1941).

Spanish war and lying propaganda.

Our Christian hope.

By Coughlin, Charles E.
1938
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/8945

Why unemployment?

By Gillis, James M., C.S.P.
1930
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14953

Federal aid to education in the emergency.

God and the depression.

By Lord, Daniel A., S.J.
1932
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/4738

Reformation of institutions.

By MacDonnell, Joseph F., S.J.
1937
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10302

Study of unemployment.

Programme for the meeting of the bishops at the Catholic University, Washington, D.C., November 15-16, 1933.

By the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Administrative Committee
1933
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10038

Unemployment: what can be done about it?

Shall the NRA be scrapped?

Present business recession.