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Live Online Professional Development Seminar--The Crash of 1929: An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Seminar
| Seminar Date: | 2012-04-07 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-09-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
179262 |
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The Crash of 1929: An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online Seminar for history, literature and humanities teachers
The Twenties were an era of easy credit, concentrated Wall Street power, and exuberant economic optimism. It seemed that prosperity would never end, until it did on October 29, 1929, when the Great Crash initiated the opening act of the Great Depression. Built around the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary film The Crash of 1929, this seminar will explore the ways in which the Crash resembled and departed from America's historic cycles of boom-and-bust. How did financial institutions, regulatory orthodoxy, and patterns of economic development contribute to the collapse? What role did non-rational behavior play in the crisis? What was the relationship between the Crash and evolving ideas about the appropriate role of the state in the economy?
Seminar Leader: Edward J. Balleisen, Associate Professor of History, Duke University; National Humanities Center Fellow
Date: Thursday, Apr. 7, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST)
Registration Deadline: Mar. 31, 2011
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