The Civilian Conservation Corps | PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
Books of The Times - 'Packing the Court' by James MacGregor Burns - Appointees Who Really Govern America - Review - NYTimes.com
referenced in connection with Court packing plan
Executive orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
List of all executive orders signed by President Roosevelt while in office with links to the text of each
Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Fireside Chats were contributed by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, located in Hyde Park, New York. For more information about FDR, please check our links site at the bottom of this page
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Overview of the plan from Social Security agency with links to primary documents and other articles about the plan
Dr. Francis E. Townsend's autobiography
Excerpts from his autobiography, called "New Horizons", from Social Security site. In these excerpts he describes the plan and explains how it could gain support among the American public
"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt" Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan fro the New Deal Network
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
This act of May 18, 1933, created the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the Tennessee Valley basin. The TVA is a Federal public power corporation that happens to be the largest public power company in the United States. It serves 80,000 square miles in the southeastern United States and runs the nation’s fifth-largest river system in order to control flooding, make rivers easier to travel, provide recreation, and protect water quality. It runs facilities for generating electric power including 29 hydroelectric dams, 11 coal-fired plants, and 3 nuclear power plants. The TVA is another exception to generally held beliefs concerning capitalism and communism.
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
On June 16, 1933, this act established the National Recovery Administration, which supervised fair trade codes and guaranteed laborers a right to collective bargaining.
Social Security Act (1935)
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
FDR and the Depression
Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents
New Deal Cultural Programs; Experiments in Cultural Democracy Article
Article about the WPA from World Wide Web center of The Institute for Cultural Democracy
New Deal Network
Huge archive of resources. The New Deal Network, an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s, is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
Social Security Online
Official site of the Social Security Administration
New Deal Lecture Outline
Outline for lecture from Central Virginia Community College
New Deal Preservation Association
Home page for group of individuals, agencies, facilities and programs that organized in December 1998 to promote the identification, documentation, preservation and education of people about the New Deal visual and performing arts, literature, crafts, structures and environmental projects
Roosevelt University - Center for New Deal Studies
The Center for New Deal Studies features resources and activities that deepen our understanding of the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and of the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the New Deal era in American history. Be sure to check the "publications" link
The New Deal Act and Agencies Chart
Acts and Agencies listed in an easy to read chart
TVA: Official Government Site
Official site provides information about the current activities and issues related to the TVA
The 3 Rs of the Great Depression
Relief, Recovery and Reform explained and programs organized into chart of the same
Rethinking the New Deal court: the ... - Google Books
Gerald L. K. Smith
One page biographical article with links from Spartacus Educational
Charles Edward Coughlin
One page biographical article with links from Spartacus Educational
New Deal Network Lesson plans
Lesson plans regarding TVA, WPA Slave Narratives, Eleanor Roosevelt and the FDR memorial
The Social Security Act | EDSITEment
This lesson engages students in the debate over Social Security that engrossed the nation during the 1930s. Students will be given the opportunity to examine the 1935 Social Security Act, and to read, listen, and watch the debates surrounding the development of this important legislation.
The activities in this lesson have students use primary source documents to develop their own points for a debate. In addition, analysis of visual, audio, and video sources will enable the students to evaluate the reasons for the creation of this act and related agency.
Lesson 3: African-Americans and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps | EDSITEment
This lesson explores that struggle and its implications for the New Deal's impact on American society; it examines a series of documents written by New Deal officials, including the President that concerned black CCC workers. It also considers documents that present the CCC from the perspective of black participants and observers. Drawing on other background readings and the diversity of views that these documents reflect, students will analyze the impact of this New Deal program on race relations in America and assess the role played by the New Deal in changing them.
Communications Act of 1934 - creation of the FCC
Commonly ignored by "Alphabet Soup" lessons of the New Deal, the creation of the FCC and its regulatory authority over information and communication systems in the United States may strike a cord with students enveloped in the information and communication revolution of the 21st Century. Why not link students to the document and simply ask them to scroll through it and comment on the degree to which the term "free market" applied to this industry in the early 1930s?