Writers' Project -- Point of departure: New York -- Chicago and the Midwest -- Gathering folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem -- Rising up in the West: Idaho -- Nailing a freight on the fly: Nebraska -- Poetic land, pugnacious people : California -- Raising the dead in New Orleans -- Cigars and turpentine in Florida -- American and un-American : back around the boroughs -- Converging on Washington -- Traveling beyond

1. Federal Writers' Project -- History
2. Federal Writers' Project -- Influence
3. United States -- Guidebooks -- History -- 20th century
4. United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
5. United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
6. United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945