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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Crash of 1929 PD from the National Humanities Center

The Crash of 1929

An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Seminar		 PBS American Experience home page

Leader:  Edward J. Balleisen
Associate Professor of History
Duke University
National Humanities Center Fellow		 Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST)
Registration Deadline: March 31, 2011
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?
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