Primary
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: The Four Freedoms

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcribed portion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress on January 6, 1941.
Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: The New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's First and Second New Deals and the different programs that got people back to work and put food on their tables. Looks at the successes and failures of these programs and the criticisms leveled at...
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the First and Second New Deal initiatives enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Fdr's First Inaugural Address

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "FDR's First Inaugural Address" by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: I Want You Fdr

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how this poster made and why it was issued by the Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Fdr and World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
After leading the United States through nearly a decade of Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took on the role of Commander-in-Chief when the United States entered the Second World War.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Depression of 1937

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the "Roosevelt Recession" that resulted from the slashing of government spending because of rosy economic news in 1936. Find out how opposition to the New Deal kept it from being expanded to help the country out of recession...
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Arsenal of Democracy

For Students 5th - 8th
Although Americans remained isolationist in their thinking, President Roosevelt understood that the European allies needed help against the Germans. Read about the incremental ways America became involved in World War II in Europe...
Handout
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Franklin D. Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Election of 1932

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of Franklin D. Roosevelt's private and political life prior to being nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic party in the election of 1932.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The viewing goals for this lesson were for students to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use certain...
Graphic
Curated OER

Picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: "One Third of a Nation": Fdr's Second Inaugural Address

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and listen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugural address where he points out the problems and progress made in his previous four years. He goes on to lay out his plans for his next term.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Obama's First 100 Days

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast the First 100 Days of Franklin Roosevelt with those of Barack Obama.
Handout
University of Texas at Austin

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History: Garner the Vice President (1933 1941)

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a larger biography, this part describes John Nance Garner's tenure as Franklin D. Roosevelt's vice-president for Roosevelt's first two terms. Find out about his importance to the enactment of the New Deal legislation.
Article
US Department of Labor

U.s. Department of Labor: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the struggle Franklin D. Roosevelt had in trying to get the Fair Labor Standards Act passed. With public support, he continued to push the ideas presented in the law until it finally was enacted into law.
Graphic
University of Washington

University Libraries: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (Fera) Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A vast collection of photographs of projects in the state of Washington funded by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration at the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Included is an essay that describes the purpose of the FERA.
Graphic
Other

New York Historical Society: Fdr's First Hundred Days

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit allows us to see the first hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's term as president. Includes photos and political cartoons.
Primary
ibiblio

Ibiblio: World War Ii Resources: Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency

For Students 9th - 10th
View text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's official Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency in May, 1941, that puts the armed services on notice in case of aggression against any parts of the Western Hemisphere.
Article
Curated OER

History Matters: Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling

For Students 9th - 10th
"Dewy Wins" is not the only big mistake made by journalists in predicting the outcome of presidential elections. This article from the Literary Digest, October 31, 1936, predicted that Alf Landon would defeat Franklin Roosevelt by a...
Handout
Social Security Administration

Social Security Onilne: Fdr's Statements on Social Security

For Students 9th - 10th
The Social Security Administration offers texts of thirteen addresses made by Franklin D. Roosevelt on the issue of Social Security. A great resource for primary source material on this topic.
Article
Other

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Closed for the Holiday [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
"Closed for the Holiday" is an excellent account of the consequential events of the Great Depression focusing on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 as the beginning of the Great Depression, and ending with the emergency bank actions Franklin...
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Casablanca Conference 1943

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the document that was issued at the conclusion of the Casablanca Conference between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill mapping out the Allied strategy necessary to win World War II.
Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: The Tehran Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
Presented is the document issued by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the conclusion of the Tehran Conference in December, 1943. Included is information about the launching of Operation Overlord, which led to...

Other popular searches