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Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

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Chapter 27 - New Deal America

Images and Maps

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Sound file)

Map: The United States in the 1930s

America in the 1930s
(Also includes textual primary material)

Map: The Tennessee Valley Authority

America from the Great Depression to World War I: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview

Images in American Political History, 1900-1950

Spartacus Encyclopaedia: The New Deal

The New Deal Network: Photos

FDR Library & Digital Archives: On-line Photos

History and Politics Out Loud: FDR Speeches
(Audio files)

Video Clips of FDR
(Enter "FDR" into the Search Engine)

History and Politics Out Loud: Speeches from the 1930s
(Audio files)

Map of the Presidential Election of 1936

Works Progress Administration Paintings and Prints

The WPA in Indiana: A Virtual Exhibit

A New Deal for the Arts

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

Old-Time Radio: The Golden Years
(Audio files)

The Mercury Theatre on the Air
(Audio files)

100 Years of Struggle: An Interactive Photo Essay about the AFL-CIO

 

Primary Sources

New Deal Document Library
(An amazing amount of resources can be found here.)

Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt

On This Day: June 16, 1933

FDR: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

FDR: Radio Address on Banking Crisis, May 7, 1933

FDR: Message to Congress on Social Security, January 17, 1935

FDR: Address on Agricultural Adjustment Act, May 14,1935

FDR: Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937

James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum: Document Collection

Social Security Online: History Page

Social Security Online: Brief History of Social Security

Huey Long, "Sharing Our Wealth"

Father Coughlin, "The National Union for Social Justice "

Townsend Plan

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

United States v. Butler, 1936

FDR and the Supreme Court

 

Secondary Sources

The History of the TVA
(This site includes many images.)

Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

A Voice of Hope: Marian Anderson

K. Daniel Glover, "FDR's Court-Packing Fiasco"

Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias, "The Historic 1936-37 Flint Auto Plant Strikes"

Kit Sims Taylor, "The Keynesian Revolution"

 

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