This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Deal.

Explains the wide-sweeping social programs Franklin Roosevelt introduced after taking office in 1933, and traces the development of the New Deal from Roosevelt's proposals to Congress, the Supreme Court's nullification of many of the...

A quick comprehension check over the New Deal.

Click on the name of individual artists listed here for excellent black and white photographs of WPA artists and their work, as well as complete descriptions. A timeline of events of the New Deal era, lesson plans and other resources are...

This is just a short article, but it includes big ideas. See the lasting legacy of the New Deal as the many of the programs begun at that time are still a large part of American government and life.

Short essay discussing how the programs of the New Deal changed the African American political support from Republican to Democrat. Includes photo.

Introduction to chapter on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

In this Curriculum Unit, learners will consider "FDR: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor" in 5 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

The New Deal Network is devoted to students and teachers researching the Great Depression and the New Deal. Features include an extensive database of photographs, political cartoons, texts and a New Deal Network Classroom that has lesson...

A comprehensive study of the controversial TVA program. Part of the New Deal, it was designed to provide residents with modern services. However, the flooded area displaced 3500 families.

Overview summarizing the domestic policies instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his plan of economic recovery in the First New Deal.

Overview of the host of economic and social measures instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second New Deal.

No discussion about the Great Depression can be complete without a look at the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs. Read about the changes and effects on the economy brought about by the programs, but see what...

Read about the conflict between the laws and regulations that were passed during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the interpretation of the commerce clause by the Supreme Court. Roosevelt had a plan to change the Supreme Court. See...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933, he enacted a range of experimental programs to combat the Great Depression.

An article regarding the New Deal and its development from the beginning of the Great Depression.

Photographs and life histories aid students in examining the lives of real people during the Great Depression, specifically those impacted by the New Deal programs and agencies. The culminating student products of this activity will...

Look through the items in this Library of Congress exhibition, NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom. This part of the exhibition deals with events the NAACP was involved with in the early 20th century just before the Great...

An electronic edition of a very interesting, though dense, book written in 1936 as a record of the activies of the Emergency Relief Adminstration in North Carolina. The book begins with a look at how relief for the indigent was provided...

This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.

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...

A narrated slideshow detailing the problems Franklin Roosevelt ran up against with putting his New Deal plans into effect. The conservative justices on the Supreme Court determined that many of the reforms were unconstitutional. Find out...

From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.

Senator Joseph McCarthy did not create the national obsession with communist subversion. It had arisen in the late 1930s, years before McCarthy had come to public notice. Angry that they had been barred from the corridors of power for 20...