Herbert Hoover - White House
Brief biography from the White House
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
FDR National Historic Site
National Park site of FDR home and Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library
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
Lesson 2: Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939 | EDSITEment
In this lesson students examine a series of primary source documents that will help them understand why neutrality laws were passed, and how they were applied in the mid- to late-1930s.
Lesson 4: The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists | EDSITEment
In this lesson students will be introduced to the main arguments used by both sides in this great debate. Through the use of an interactive map and primary source documents they will trace the events of 1941, and think critically about what foreign policy would have best served national interests.
Voices from the Dust Bowl
The Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format documents of the everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941
Riding the Rails--
Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression - links to a dozen letters from teenagers who took to the rails during the Depression. Compare to kids who took off for Woodstock in 1969?
Resource List - The Depression and New Deal America
Links site that is a directory of 1930's America Resources
Surviving the Dust Bowl PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
America in the 1930s -U Virginia
Extensive primary document resource including the 1930s in film, on the air, and in print
The Great Depression and the New Deal - Notes
Section for online textbook, geared for straightforward explanations
Documenting America:America from the Great Depression to World War II
Over 160,000 color and B&W images from the Depression and mobilization for WWII. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
Dorothea Lange Photos
24 pre-World War II photographs, taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA), investigating living conditions of families hired to work in cotton fields and farms in Arizona and California
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
Transcript of National Labor Relations Act (1935)
"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt" Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan fro the New Deal Network
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Second Inaugural Address. 1937
Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. 1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fourth Inaugural Address. 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Third Inaugural Address. 1941
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.
The Crash of 1929 - NYTimes Coverage
Links to different sections of the paper and selected articles from October 1929
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.