Although we think of electricity becoming a common item around the late 19th century, rural America did not see electricity for a long time after. In the 1920s, electricity was a common occurrence in big cities, but by this time, still nothing reached the rural areas. In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority was founded, which …
08. Rural electrification
08. Rural electrification
“New Deal REA- 1963” Leuchtenburg (Kayla Mizelle)
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In this reading, Luechtenburg discusses the affects the rural electrification had on American society. He claims that the REA was Roosevelts biggest contribution to the American society. Leuchtenburg writes, “Valley Authority was bringing electricity to a valley where, in 1932, only one Mississippi farm out of a hundred had power. “We are working toward no less…
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Cece Burger: Rural Electrification
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For blog 8 I was tasked with finding new sources on rural electrification. Using Summons I found a book published in1940 by Harry Slattery, who was the former REA Administrator, called Rural America Lights Up. The book summarizes the many facets of the REA and President Roosevelt’s order of 1935 and the Rural Electrification Act …
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The Two Sides of Rural Electrification
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Jason Arquette Professor Hirsh Blog 8g October 5th, 2017 As accounted for in Clayton Brown’s essay “North Carolina Rural Electrification”, the traditional narrative of electricity’s spread to the rural areas of America starts with the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. Initiated as a part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal in the wake of the Great…
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Andrew Pregnall: Reflections on “The Sad Irons”
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For this Thursday’s class I read “The Sad Irons” which is an excerpt from Robert A Caro’s book The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. “The Sad Irons” was an interesting chapter to read because it did not necessarily contain an overt argument about the electrification of rural America. Instead, the chapter traced …
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Delanie Tarvin: Malone on the R.E.A.
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In “Market Failure in Delivering Electricity to Rural Areas Before 1930”, Laurence J. Malone outlines the historic timeline of the electric industry in relation to rural America. According to Malone, the early market for the electronic industry was almost solely urban. Consequently, “rural regions of the United States were generally without electricity and were denied …
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Helen Goggins: Rural Electrification and the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. discussed the evolution of rural electrification in the United States during the early 1930’s in his book, The Politics of Upheaval. Schlesinger Jr. argued the positive and negative views revolving around the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The TVA, created in 1933, fell under the Public Works Administration and part of New Deal…
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Electrifying the Nation
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When we walk into a room and flip a light switch, we, often times, take the immediate flood of light for granted. It does not cross our minds where or how the power was generated, the manner in which it was converted into electricity, or how it is then wired into our places of living …
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Rural Electrification During the Great Depression
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Electrical power spread slowly from the cities, driven by the demand there. In the countryside, few farms were electrified as the infrastructure costs made it unprofitable for power companies to send it there. By the 1930’s, most farms were still without power, doing things the old fashioned way. In the depths of the Depression, president …
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Rural Electrification Contemporary View: Carter Man
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I looked at newdeal.feri.org to gain a basic understanding of the traditional view of rural electrification in the United States. According to the article, 90% of city dwellers had electricity by the 1930s compared to just 10% of people living in rural areas. It wasn’t convenient for utility companies to build power lines in rural…