Books
David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American
People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
The Pulitzer-prize winning history of the Great Depression
and World War II.
Films
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The classic study of a World War I veteran unjustly
imprisoned on a Georgia chain gang.
Hollywood and the Great Depression
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Containing 5,000 photographs, 900 primary source documents,
and many special features, the New Deal Network is sponsored
by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the
Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College
of Columbia University.
Related Web Sites:
America in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/home_1.html
This site views the 1930s through the lenses of its films,
radio programs, literature, journalism, museums, exhibitions,
architecture, art, and other forms of cultural expression.
Cavalcade of the American Negro, 1940
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam013.html
Library of Congress mini-exhibit on a book produced by
the Illinois Writers' Project of the WPA, the Cavalcade
of the American Negro, a sweeping history of black
contributions to all phases of American life from 1865
to 1940.
The Songs of Woody Guthrie
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/guthrie.html
The lyrics of the ballads of folksinger Woody Guthrie.
FDR Cartoon Archive
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/
An archive of editorial cartoons dealing with Franklin
Roosevelt and his administration.
FDR's Statements on Social Security
http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrstmts.html
Thirteen addresses by Franklin Roosevelt on Social Security.
The History Website of the Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html
This site, which contains an overview of the history of
the Social Security system, also includes Francis Townsend's
proposal for old age pensions and writings by Roosevelt's
critics Father Charles Coughlin and Huey Long
A New Deal for the Arts
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/new_deal_for_the_arts/index.html
An online exhibition that uses of texts and images
from the National Archives to examine New Deal era federal
art programs, the art works that were created, and the
controversies they provoked.
Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
A searchable collection of more than 55,000 photographs
that document the impact of the Depression and World War
II on rural life.
Roosevelt and the Supreme Court: Constitutional
Issues and Separation of Powers
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
separation_of_powers/separation_of_powers.html
A lesson plan built around documents from the National
Archives relating to Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to increase
the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
The Scottsboro Boys
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117060622/www.afroam.org/
history/scott/scotts.html
Articles from the Baltimore Afro-American on the 1931
case.
Then and Now Prices During the Great Depression
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-
52530--,00.html
An activity in which students compare today's prices of
common products with those during the Depression.
Voices from the Dust Bowl
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
A collection of materials from the Farm Security Administration
migrant work camps in California. Maintained by the Library
of Congress, the site includes migrant workers' songs,
correspondence, photographs, and explanatory text. It
is searchable by keyword or medium.
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