Nebraska During the New Deal: The Federal Writers' Project in the Cornhusker State

by Marilyn Irvin Holt

2020 Nebraska Book Award

As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496215664
• ISBN13: 9781496215666
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 9.4"