Digital History
Digital History: New Deal Programs [Pdf]
Here's an exercise in which students use data provided about possible New Deal programs and lets them decide which are economically feasible and helpful as a way to address the Great Depression. Use the provided chart to keep track of...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: About Sharecropping
Three articles about the effects of sharecropping, a farming system that became prevalent after the Civil War for blacks and whites.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Penny for Your Thoughts
This is an outline for a week-long lesson usually taught in the month of February around President's Day. It is an interdisciplinary study combining coin identification with a literature-based study of the Presidents represented on the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Marshall County
Students will create computer models based both on contemporary maps and primary sources to explore the role of the Tennessee Valley Authority's hydroelectric projects in altering more than 75 miles of the natural landscape and in...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 8: Huey P. Long's Political Legacy
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the political legacy of Huey P. Long.
Curated OER
Fact Monster: Famous Presidential Speeches
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and others have their famous presidential speeches captured in this database.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Edwin Witte, 1887 1960
Edwin Witte was known as the founder of Social Security, having created the plan for it when he worked on the Committee on Economic Security under President Franklin Roosevelt. This is a biography of his life.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Great Depression and the Arts
Part of a wonderful website devoted to researching and teaching the Great Depression and the New Deal. These pages are focused specifically on the arts during this time.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Works of Fdr: A Message to the Congress on Social Security
Text of FDR's speech to Congress on January 17, 1935, regarding Social Security.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 7: 1890 1945
This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History Period 5: 1890-1945.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Fdr's First Inaugural Address
Features background on FDR and his platform for dealing with the Great Depression. Included are primary source documents of his first inaugural address and photos related to his New Deal programs.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Russell Freedman Biography
Discover more about the author Russell Freedman when you visit this site. This resource provides a biography, an interview transcript, a booklist and more.
TES Global
Blendspace: Fdr Fireside Chats
A nine-part learning module with links to videos, websites, and images to use while learning about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Fireside Chats.
A&E Television
History.com: This Is How Fdr Tried to Pack the Supreme Court
When his New Deal legislation kept getting struck down, FDR proposed a law targeting justices over the age of 70.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Table of Contents
This site from ibiblio.org provides a page of links (all on the same server) to various speeches and documents given and written by Franklin D. Roosevelt which is related to foreign policy.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: A Prayer for Overlord, a Commentary
This commentary summarizes the Normandy Invasion, from its plan to its execution, intertwined with passages of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prayer to the nation on June 6, 1944.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Treasures: Memo From Stalin
Stalin's memo to representative W. Averell Harriman following a conference with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill on military planning of WWII against Hitler.
Lin and Don Donn
American History Lesson Plans: Fdr's Fireside Chats
A great lesson plan to examine Franklin D. Roosevelt's first fireside chat and apply the format in explaining a current economic problem.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: New Deal
Article on FDR's New Deal provides detailed facts and a summary of a series of relief programs during the Great Depression.
270 To Win
270towin: 1940 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1940 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt. This election was the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to a third term as president.
270 To Win
270towin: 1936 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1936 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s.
270 To Win
270towin: 1944 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1944 won by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a record fourth term.
Indiana University
Wpa Exhibit Project: The Works Projects Administration in Indiana
Although this site concerns itself with the WPA in Indiana, the information provides a good overall look at the Works Progress Administration in the rest of country during the New Deal era.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: United States History: The Second New Deal
This site describes how as a result of mounting criticisms and a need for more economic relief and recovery, FDR introduced another series of programs, known as the Second New Deal, aimed at fighting unemployment and poverty and...
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