Library Guides: Evaluating Information: War of the Worlds
14: Depression and New Deal
The Broadcast That Terrified A Nation - Inside A Mind
This provides more information on the production itself, explaining how Orson Welles developed the radio script's adaptation for radio - essentially how to make it believable.
Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds, and the ‘panic of 1938’ | The Lincoln Memo
Excellent example of just the sort of lesson students need to have right now - the story of a massive prank by a 23 year old that caused millions of people to panic, then the historians who can dig into the past and find that the story of millions panicking itself it not true
“The War of the Worlds” | Princeton Magazine
Herbert Hoover - White House
Brief biography from the White House
Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Civilian Conservation Corps | PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources
The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade used to just let the balloons float off
This collection of photographs may allow teachers to approach Thanksgiving from the perspective of marketing to explore the cultural history of the holiday and how it fits into American culture rather than the memory of the colonial event on which it is based.
Books of The Times - 'Packing the Court' by James MacGregor Burns - Appointees Who Really Govern America - Review - NYTimes.com
referenced in connection with Court packing plan
Social Security History
Lessons and DBQs that have students considering the question of the responsibility of government for the welfare of people could benefit from this essay which is a summary of historical development and laws
Franksgiving - Wikipedia
A lesson on the changing date of Thanksgiving is a good way to debunk the "free market" myth
Federal Reserve System
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt
from the FDR library - notice how Eleanor Roosevelt only allowed female reporters to her press conferences, forcing the newspaper to hire women.
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
footagefarm - YouTube
Too many primary source videos to list, but a worthwhile visit if you have the time to find raw footage to accompany any 20th century US History lesson
Executive orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
List of all executive orders signed by President Roosevelt while in office with links to the text of each
FDR National Historic Site
National Park site of FDR home and Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library
Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Fireside Chats were contributed by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, located in Hyde Park, New York. For more information about FDR, please check our links site at the bottom of this page
Lesson 2: Legislating Neutrality, 1934-1939 | EDSITEment
In this lesson students examine a series of primary source documents that will help them understand why neutrality laws were passed, and how they were applied in the mid- to late-1930s.
Lesson 4: The Great Debate: Internationalists vs. Isolationists | EDSITEment
In this lesson students will be introduced to the main arguments used by both sides in this great debate. Through the use of an interactive map and primary source documents they will trace the events of 1941, and think critically about what foreign policy would have best served national interests.
Radio History Documents | Federal Communications Commission
Collection of documents regulating the radio industry. Many of these documents demonstrate the manner in which the federal government is regulating the communications system of the United States. Likewise these documents can be used to dispel the myth that there is a free market
Minnesota Vikings Stadium: A Summary of Actions by 2012 Legislature
The new Minnesota Vikings stadium cost more than NASA's mission to Pluto. It the place of business of a private corporation, carrying the name of another corporation "US Bank Stadium" yet half of its funding was paid by Minnesota taxpayers. This is a summary of the state legislation authorizing this funding - it is a primary source. Put the charts in front of students and let them ask questions - perfect start to an inquiry lesson on capitalism. Or rather the economic system that we try to describe with that word
Diary and Appointment Book of Harry S. Truman
Office of Tax Analysis | U.S. Department of the Treasury
Discussion and arguments about tax rates and which "president raised (or lowered) tax rates the most [ignoring Congress] really need a base of reality upon which to compare and contrast - this should be the shared ground of fact
Segregation in America | Equal Justice Initiative
Web project combing text, images, and video detailing the history of segregation in America
Mapping Inequality - Redlining in New Deal America
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal. The HOLC issued bonds and then used the bonds to purchase mortgage loans from lenders. Between 1933 and 1935, the HOLC made slightly more than one million loans. - But those loans were based on the analysis of the neighborhoods. This project demonstrates how the HOLC created area descriptions to help to organize the data they used to assign the grades. Among that information was the neighborhood's quality of housing, the recent history of sale and rent values, and, crucially, the racial and ethnic identity and class of residents that served as the basis of the neighborhood's grade. These maps and their accompanying documentation helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice.
Herbert Hoover - American Presidents: Life Portraits
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
Voices from the Dust Bowl
The Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format documents of the everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941
Riding the Rails--
Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression - links to a dozen letters from teenagers who took to the rails during the Depression. Compare to kids who took off for Woodstock in 1969?