Digital History
Digital History: The Human Toll
The Great Depression took a terrible toll on individuals and families. Read about the massive unemployment, ways people tried to survive, and the subtle change in people's attitudes toward the role of government in helping its citizens.
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Bartleby.com: Modern American Poetry: "The Master," by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The text of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "The Master," about Abraham Lincoln. Although Robinson was born a few years after Lincoln's death, he grasps the way attitudes toward Lincoln changed throughout his life and afterwards.