Federal Writers' Project

Overview

Works:	2,174 works in 3,012 publications in 1 language and 48,048 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Guidebooks History Folklore Interviews Oral histories Sources Slave narratives Case studies Pictorial works
Roles:	Editor, Compiler, Other, Creator
Classifications:	E444, 326.973

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Federal Writers' Project

The WPA guides : mapping America by Christine Bold( )
The dream and the deal : the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione( Book )
Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project by Jerrold Hirsch( )
Creating a Hoosier self-portrait : the Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 by George T Blakey( )
The Federal Writers' Project : a study in Government patronage of the arts by Monty Noam Penkower( Book )

Remembering America : a sampler of the WPA American guide series( Book )
Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project by Catherine A Stewart( )
Soul of a people : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America by David A Taylor( Book )
The Federal Writers' Project : a bibliography by Jeutonne P Brewer( Book )
A long road home : journeys through America's present in search of America's past by Geoffrey O'Gara( Book )
The truth according to us : a novel by Annie Barrows( Book )
Against itself : the Federal Theater and Writers' Projects in the Midwest by Paul Sporn( Book )
Hispano folklife of New Mexico : the Lorin W. Brown Federal Writers' Project manuscripts by Lorin W Brown( Book )
Soul of a people : writing America's story( Visual )
American guides : the Federal Writers' Project and the casting of American culture by Wendy Griswold( Book )
Literary legacies of the Federal Writers' Project : voices of the Depression in the American postwar era by Sara Rutkowski( )
A long road home : in the footsteps of the WPA writers by Geoffrey O'Gara( Book )
Lamps at high noon by Jack S Balch( Book )
Henry Alsberg : the driving force of the New Deal Federal Writers' Project by Susan Rubenstein DeMasi( Book )
Enough to live on : the arts of the WPA( Visual )

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Most widely held works by Federal Writers' Project

The WPA guide to 1930s Iowa by Joseph Frazier Federal Writers Project( )

6 editions published between 1986 and 2007 in English and held by 1,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa is a panorama of the Hawkeye State as it was during the Great Depression, but it nevertheless finds much to celebrate in the heartland of America. Nearly three dozen essays highlight Iowa's demography, economy, and culture, but the heart of the book is a detailed traveler's guide, organized as seventeen different tours that direct the reader to communities of particular social and historical interest throughout the state. Rarely has so much information about a place been gathered in a single volume. This unique book is a special invitation to share in the richness and diversity of Iowa and its people

Lay my burden down : a folk history of slavery by Benjamin Albert Botkin( Book )

20 editions published between 1945 and 1973 in English and held by 1,757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A selection and integration of excerpts and complete naratives from the Slave narrative collection of the Federal writer's project

The Florida Negro : a Federal Writers' Project legacy by Gary W McDonogh( )

5 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,538 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The work of the FWP team, compiled from archival resources and statistical records, as well as from interviews with a wide range of Florida blacks, provides a vivid documentary description of Florida's African heritage. Reflecting a mixture of both pride and complaint in the black community, their research illuminates the world of such stellar black Floridians as Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Augusta Savage. None of this material has been published previously in the series of WPA guidebooks. Versions of the manuscript and the primary documents are in the archives of the Florida Historical Society, the P. K. Yonge Library at the University of Florida, and the Library of Congress

First-person America by Ann Banks( Book )

7 editions published between 1980 and 1991 in English and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of 80 life histories, written between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writer's Projects, of men and women from all parts of the country

Wyoming folklore : reminiscences, folktales, beliefs, customs, and folk speech by Susan D Dow( )

2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

These are our lives by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

16 editions published between 1939 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iowa, a guide to the Hawkeye State by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

19 editions published between 1930 and 1977 in English and held by 1,155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A guide to Alaska, last American frontier by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

34 editions published between 1939 and 2014 in English and held by 1,126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In September 1973, the military took power in Chile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president Salvadore Allende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is the story of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet "s death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced to leave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginable outcome. The toll on Dorfman "s wife and two sons, the Searthquake of language that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party ?all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty

Washington, city and capital by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

13 editions published in 1937 in English and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bearing witness : memories of Arkansas slavery : narratives from the 1930s WPA collections by George E Lankford( )

8 editions published between 2003 and 2006 in English and held by 906 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration created an archive of interviews with exslaves; this new collection brings together all 176 of the Arkansas slave narratives for the first time

The Oregon trail : the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

10 editions published between 1939 and 1977 in English and held by 800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American slave : a composite autobiography by George P Rawick( Book )

6 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 693 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Homeless, friendless, and penniless : the WPA interviews with former slaves living in Indiana by Ronald L Baker( Book )

3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 669 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes interviews of 134 former slaves

U.S. One, Maine to Florida by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

9 editions published between 1938 and 2016 in English and held by 605 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"U.S. Higway One... is one of the country's most important highways. It runs through 13 Atlantic seaboard states, carrying millions of tourists annually. Each one of them will find something important and interesting in this indispensable in this guide."

The WPA guide to America : the best of 1930s America as seen by the Federal Writers' Project( Book )

3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 548 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old Northwest Territory : a supplemental text for school use by Northwest Territory Celebration Commission of Ohio( Book )

7 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in English and held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Slave culture : a documentary collection of the slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project by Spencer R Crew( )

3 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"For the first time, the WPA Slave Narratives are organized by theme, making it easier to examine--and understand--specific aspects of slave life and culture"--

Voices from slavery by Norman R Yetman( Book )

3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of slave narratives includes an additional chapter, "Ex-slave interviews and the historiography of slavery," originally published in 1984 in American Quarterly

The ocean highway : New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida by Federal Writers' Project( Book )

9 editions published between 1938 and 2016 in English and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To follow the course of the Ocean Highway along the shore of the Atlantic New Jersey to Florida is like taking a living course in American history. You will journey through romantic legend-haunted regions like the Dismal Swamp (V.A. and N.C.); past such historical spots as Tangier Island, still guarding its ancient independence as it did in the War of 1812. You will pass the Georgia scene of Julia Peterkin's novel "Black Skin" and "Scarlet Sister Mary"; and the house which was the setting for George Alfred Townsend's story of antebellum days in Maryland, "The Entailed Hat". From the road across Butler's Island you can see the house where Fanny Kemble, the English actress, kept her unhappy diary as the wife of Pierce Butler. Also contains an excerpt from one of the earliest descriptions of the North Carolina coast by an English person

Harlem photographs, 1932-1940 by Aaron Siskind( Book )

8 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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