For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform

Primary Sources

Letters to the Children’s Bureau from Mrs. L.W., Mrs. W.D., Mrs. W.D., Mrs. F.W., Mrs. C.A, Mrs. S.L., Mrs. G.B. In Raising a Baby the Government Way: Mothers’ Letters to the Children’s Bureau, 1915–1932. Edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986, 115–126.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. “The Four Freedoms.” Speech to Congress, Washington, DC, January 6, 1941. Full speech audio recording and transcript available online.
The Second Bill of Rights excerpt from “On the State of the Union” Fireside Chat 28. Washington, DC, January 11, 1944. YouTube video, 2:00, posted by KillWill3, November 19, 2009. Full speech transcript available online.

Secondary Sources

Lemons, J. Stanley. “The Sheppard-Towner Act: Progressivism in the 1920s.” The Journal of American History Vol. 55, No. 4 (March 1969): 776–786.
Blumenthal, David and James Morone. “Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Enigmatic Angler.” In The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 21–56.