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This subcategory contains 36 links While the majority of the Library's holdings of New Deal program materials have not been digitized, digital versions of selected materials created by New Deal programs, as well as other related materials from the period, are available in the following Library of Congress online collections. The Great Depression: A Diary, Readings New Deal America in Color Marist College offers an excellent site. "The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 907 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia." "The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works program that put over three million young men and adults to work during the Great Depression of the 1930's and 1940's in the United States." During the Great Depression, thousands of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for help. They asked for clothing, money, and other forms of assistance. "In 1933, at the ripe old age of 39, Huey Long published his autobiography. This might seem, at the least, premature. But it turned out to be a provident move as Huey Long was dead two years later, felled by an assassin's bullet." He was one of the most colorful characters in US history. Glimpse the rural past by David Kennedy by Richard G. Menaker, Partner, Menaker & Herrmann LLP "Anthony J. Badger is the author of the new book FDR: The First Hundred Days. He is Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Master of Clare College, Cambridge University. In this lecture, given last night in New York City, he talks about FDR’s first 100 days and how they have been interpreted by historians across the political spectrum." The Fireside Chats were contributed by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, located in Hyde Park, New York. from a British perspective Music clips Review essay by by John Updike Harry Hopkins and his relationship to FDR. Excerpts frpm Huey Long's second book, published in 1935. The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Connecticut town has the largest collection of Murals paid for by the Works Progress Administration. This calendar was created by the New York City Poster Division in 1938 to show government officials the skilled artistic work the Federal Art Project was doing for the WPA. History of the CCC and alumni info. History from the Social Security Administration. The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Scholarly book by Ronald C. Tobey The authors, strangely enough, define the periods as "The Great Depression: 1892 - 1933 New Deal: 1933 - 1938" whereas the great Depression is generally considered to have started in 1929. H-US1918-45, The New Deal era and its Origins, provides a forum for research and teaching the history of the United States, from 1918 to 1945. "This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images). The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA)." Chapter 27 of Garraty's The American Nation . Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project .© 1980 Ann Banks Jonathan Alter and Alan Brinkley “The Defining Moment: FDR’s First Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” May 8, 2007, at the New-York Historical Society Running Time: 38:59 |
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