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The New Deal Network

http://www.newdeal.feri.org/

Provider: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

About this resource

Appropriate grades
6–12
Subjects
social studies (United States history)
Provider
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

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The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. At the core of the NDN is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period).

Organized by documents, photographs, features, forums, and an online classroom, you can find:

  • “Over 900 articles, speeches, letters and other texts, organized by subject, date and author.
  • Over 5000 Great Depression era images from the National Archives, the FDR Library and many other sources.
  • Lesson plans, web projects, and bibliographical materials on the Great Depression.
  • A moderated H-Net discussion list for teachers and historians.
  • Documents from the Great Depression. Contributed from the family collections of New Deal Network visitors.
  • A photo-documentary of the impact of the Great Depression and New Deal on a small Southern town, by WPA photographer William C. Pryor.
  • During the 1930s, students from the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School documented their life and times. This feature includes 193 poems, articles, and short stories and 295 graphics.”