Curated OER
A New Deal for African Americans
Pupils consider how New Deal programs impacted African Americans. In this New Deal instructional activity, students collaborate to research Internet and print sources regarding selected New Deal programs and African...
Curated OER
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
Students view images of New Deal programs to see its successes. They work in groups to create captions for the images and suggest captions that might indicate different meanings.
Curated OER
Alphabet Soup Job Descriptions
Eleventh graders investigate New Deal programs. In this Great Depression lesson, 11th graders read the provided source materials that detail the agendas of 3 New Deal agencies. Students complete the provided analysis sheets and then...
Curated OER
New Deal Programs
In this New Deal worksheet, students write how different New Deal programs affected society during the Great Depression and how it still affects society today. Students complete this for 5 programs.
US Department of Agriculture
Executive Order 7027: Establishment of the Resettlement Administration
Original text of the Establishment of the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Authority for this order was granted under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: Great Depression: Help and a New Deal
Original photographs highlight the New Deal programs intended to aid families and individuals during the Great Depression.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: New Deal
Describes in great detail what Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program was, its objectives, and what happened over the years it was in place.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: The Great Depression: 1930s and the Roosevelt Administration
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...
New Deal Network
New Deal: Tennessee Valley Authority: Electricity for All
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.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: The Nation: Can We Have a Housing Program?
Critique of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the lack of comprehensive housing programs. Appeared in "The Nation" in 1935. Interesting commentary from the time by Albert Mayer.
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Roosevelt's Fireside Chats: On the Current Recession
The text of President Roosevelt's fireside chat on April 14, 1938 in which he tries to explain why a recession was occurring despite the New Deal programs.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Wpa: Antidote to the Great Depression?
[Free Registration/Login Required] A good assessment of the Works Progress Administration and its contribution not only of providing jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression, but for the lasting improvements it made in the...
New Deal Network
New Deal Network: Electricity for All
An article on the Rural Electrification Administration and its efforts to provide affordable electricity for rural dwellers during the 1930s. Includes links to related topics and a timeline.
University of North Carolina
Documenting the American South: North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration
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...
Oklahoma Historical Society
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma: Federal Art Project
As part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Art Project's goal was to provide employment to artists who would be educators and creators of public art. Read about the legacy of the Federal Art Project in Oklahoma during the...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The New Deal
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the New Deal, its programs, and the ways it helped a nation in the grips of the Great Depression. The New Deal was not universally popular, so find out what Franklin Roosevelt did to keep the...
University of Oklahoma
Congressional Archives: Archives of the Great Depression
This site covers many aspects of the Great Depression and the New Deal programs meant to address the terrible economic issues.
Other
Eh.net: Rural Electrification Administration
A very interesting assessment of the success of the Rural Electrication Admininstration in bringing electricity to rural areas that private utilities had been unwilling to service. Read about the results in terms of needed jobs in the...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Roosevelt's Tree Army: The Civilian Conservation Corps
This exhibition tells the stories of the CCC's administration and controversial policies, the men who joined, and the contributions its projects made to the history of conservation in the United States.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Wpa
A short description with primary source examples of the aid African American artists received from the WPA.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Government Involvement
Ouline of the changing scope of government involvement in the private sector beginning in 19th Century America Progressive Era and reaching its peak during Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Growth of Government Intervention
Overview of the changing federal government role as it increased involvement and intervention in business and social welfare in the 1900s.
US National Archives
Nara: A New Deal for the Arts
Some of the New Deal programs during the Great Depression were designed to support artists and the arts. This National Archives and Records Administration site explores the products of the time period.
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.