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How the Great Depression Changed America

How the Great Depression Changed America

  The University of New England recently hosted a talk by Ted Gup, former Washington Post journalist and author of A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression.

He is a former investigative reporter for The Washington Post working under Bob Woodward. He later wrote for Time magazine covering Congress and the environment, and serving as Washington investigative correspondent. Since 2009, he has been professor and chair of the journalism department at Emerson College in Boston.

This talk, titled "How The Great Depression Changed America" was recorded April 18, 2011 at the WCHP Lecture Hall, Portland Campus of the University of New England.

Visit the University of New England's website for more details about this talk