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The New Deal Network is an online educational guide to the Roosevelt Administration and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.

The twenty most influential artists and entertainers of the 20th century.

The California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties collection contains multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photos, drawings and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.

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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.

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Home News FAQs Contacts Internet Movies Arpanet ICDL About the Archive Movies by Title About This Collection FAQs Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized and donated to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. This is ...

The Academy of Achievement brings you face to face with the extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century. It is an amazing collection, not of mere artifacts, but of people and ideas that fill you with inspiration, encouragement, and the will to achieve.

FSM-A the Free Speech Movement Archives Home Page - events from 1964 and following ...

The America's Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920, collection contains political speeches by American leaders during World War I and the presidential election of 1920.

Photographic collection of child labor from the early 1900's.

The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Alphabetical Title List | Subject Index Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory ...

Images and descriptions of the fabulous 1915 San Francisco worlds fair.

Discover a century of photography though an interactive photolab and feature topics.

The Library of Congress Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse the Subject Index | List the Film Titles The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Most prominently featured are the Westinghouse ...

1920s: Web's first 1920's Page; news, Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, flappers, prohibition, lost generation, babe ruth, art deco, charleston, modern, history, silent movies, speakeasies ...

Web Credits THE FILM & MORE | SPECIAL FEATURE | TIMELINE | MAPS PEOPLE & EVENTS | TEACHER'S GUIDE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | KIDS | SEARCH | FEEDBACK WGBH | PBS Online New content 1999 PBS/WGBH. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by WGBH. Web site 1998 WGBH Educational Foundation. ...

This program chronicles the lives and clashes of military leader Admiral Leighton Smith and the well-known diplomat Richard Holbrooke. From Vietnam to the Balkans, each man has had to engage the issue of when, where, and how U.S. military force will be used. In the Balkans, they came into direct conflict over the role and responsibilities of the U.S. military in securing and maintaining the ...

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A site dedicated to the explication of the trial of the Chicago Seven.

On May 6, 1935, the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was created to help provide economic relief to the citizens of the United States who were suffering through the Great Depression. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of the W.P.A. under Federal Project One.

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Web Credits THE FILM & MORE | SPECIAL FEATURE | TIMELINE | MAPS | TEACHER'S GUIDE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | KIDS | SEARCH | FEEDBACK WGBH | PBS Online New content 1999 PBS/WGBH. This Web site was produced for PBS Online by WGBH. Web site 1999 WGBH Educational Foundation. ...

It was a time of conservatism, it was a time of great social change. From the world of fashion to the world to politics, forces clashed to produce the most explosive decade of the century. In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. The Jazz Age came about with artist like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything. From the young styles of dress to the latest celebrities.

The personal homepage of philanthropist and financier Michael ( Mike ) Milken includes links to his current activities, a biography, speeches, articles and photo album."Mike") Milken includes links to his current activities, a biography, speeches, articles and photo album.

N E W D E A L N E T W O R K The Magpie Sings the Great Depression: Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School's Literary Magazine, 1929-1942 Home | Lesson Plan | Project Information | Resources Archive: Year | Author/Artist | Subject | Images Augustus Hodges illustrated Robert Warshow's It Isn't the Fall (June 1932) Student Voices from the 1930s You want me to tell about those good old days But ...

The Michigan Historical Museum's 1930s gallery presents these stories of Michigan during the Great Depression: Labor unions and the Flint sit-down strike, Paul Honore's Natural Resources Mural, bungalows, radio, lighthouses and the Great Lakes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the Civilian Conservatin Corps in Michigan.

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Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore tells the story of America's first civil rights martyr.

Nursing medical history about a World War One Red Cross nurse.

An overview, timeline, books, links, and other information on America s Great Depression.

Tribue to the Crew of a B25 Bomber that crashed near Bedford VA in 1943, Recent pictures of crash scene, Goverment Report, History, Newspaper articles ...

The Hoover Dam: Lonely Lands Made Fruitful Introduction Modernity and The Hoover Dam Machine in The Desert Icon of Faith: A Federal Works Project Planned Living in Boulder City Franklin D. Roosevelt's Dedication Speech Construction of the Hoover Dam Slide Shows Maps Works Consulted Hoover Dam Visitor Site This page created and designed by Janet Haven for the University of Virginia American ...

Meet Carl Fisher, the man who turned Florida swampland into America's vacation destination.

Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. As he wrote in his 21-part series, I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days : I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, ...

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A brief synopsis of the American invasion of Grenada in 1983. A good resource for students and researchers. This page contains links to other sites on this conflict as well as to sites on numerous other wars and conflicts.

20 Century Created 2/3/1997 Go to Brad DeLong's Home Page Slouching Towards Utopia : The Economic History of the Twentieth Century -XIV. The Great Crash and the Great Slump- J. Bradford DeLong University of California at Berkeley and NBER February 1997 The Great Depression in Outline The Great Crash Even a Panic Is Not All Together a Bad Thing Debt-Deflation Golden Fetters The Persistence of the ...

A look into the corruption of television quiz-shows in the 1950s.

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The internet's Roaring 20s Show - Featuring early ragtime and vaudeville performers. Many songs from the Roaring 1920's on-line!

William Bauchop Wilson First U.S. Secretary of Labor Wilson is a constructive man, a friend of capital as well as of labor, and one whom no just man need fear. -- William S. Nearing, superintendent of Morris Run Coal Co., Morris Run, Pa., 1906 William Bauchop Wilson, 1862 - 1934 Introduction Blossburg.org is a community site, intended to foster communication and interaction among Blossburg ...

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The Palmer Raids Selection taken from the forthcoming CD Rom Who Built America, v. II The Palmer Raids The climate of repression established during World War One continued after the war ended: this time, government interest focused on communists, Bolsheviks and reds generally. The climactic phase of this anti communist crusade occurred during the Palmer Raids of 1918-1921. A. Mitchell Palmer, ...

This is a short history of Pvt. Bill Bires' military duty with Co."A" 231st Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft. Lewis, Washington. Co. "A" was assigned temporary duty at the Atomic Test Series, Buster-Jangle in the Nevada desert, in the fall of 1951. Co. "A"'s military duty at the test site was unique. While the rest of the battalion built the tent city known as Camp Desert Rock, Co. "A" was sent ...

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY Documentary Photography and the Great Depression From 1935 to 1943, photographers working for the federal government produced the most enduring images of the Great Depression. Beginning under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration in 1935 and then the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937, a group that over time included about twenty men and women worked ...

By FLOYD NORRIS even decades later, the crash of 1929 is remembered as an unnecessary disaster, a market event that need not have led to economic collapse. What is not recalled is that people then, too, were confident about many of the same things that seem so reassuring today. The front page of the Oct. 30, 1929 New York Times exclaimed the massive loss on Wall Street. It also worked to ease ...

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Fascinating facts about Edwin Herbert Land inventor of Polaroid Land Camera in 1947.

Excerpted from AGAINST OLIGARCHY Essays & speeches 1970-1996 by Webster G. Tarpley PART 7 BRITISH FINANCIAL WARFARE: 1929; 1931- 33 HOW THE CITY OF LONDON CREATED THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Webster G. Tarpley December, 1996 The thesis of this paper is that the great economic and financial cataclysm of the first half of the twentieth century, which we have come to know as the Great Depression, was ...

Volume Thirty-Seven 1995 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Advertising of Installment Plans By Sharon Murphy After several decades of urbanization and industrialization, post- World War I America was marked by a rapid increase in the availability of mass-produced commodities. For the growing middle-class population, the twentieth ...

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Volume Thirty-Seven 1995 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Pressures of PATCO: Strikes and Stress in the 1980s By Rebecca Pels On August 3, 1981 almost 13, 000 air traffic controllers went on strike after months of negotiations with the federal government. During the contract talks, Robert Poli, president of the Professional Air ...

An Examination of the Political Philosphy of Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey (1941-1943) ...

The voice of Aztlan publishes news, news analyses and scholarly writings on La Raza.

The Supreme Court helped cause the Great Depression.

Verda E. Galbreath Carter Diary 1934 - 1938 Restored By Michael B. Simpkins In loving memory of Verda E. Carter June 23, 1917 - December 22, 1994 For her children and future generations. Read Diary Contents | Contact | Sign Guestbook | Read Guestbook | Search Diary You are visitor #13402 Welcome! Member of the DMOZ Open Directory Project Member of the Internet Genealogical Directory ...

Coupons and Counterfeits: World War II and the U.S. Black Market Garrett Moritz Where any important article becomes scarce, rationing is the democratic, equitable solution. Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 27, 1942 When my grandchildren ever ask me what I did during the Great War, I m going to tell them it was too horrible to talk about. OPA official, December 1944 During the second world war, ...

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Listings, descriptions and photos of U.S. fighter aircraft and fighter 'aces' of WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and today ...

April 23, 1972 An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Life Joyce Maynard has written several novels, including To Die For, on which the recent movie was based. By JOYCE MAYNARD very generation thinks it's special--my grandparents because they remember horses and buggies, my parents because of the Depression. The over-30's are special because they knew the Red Scare of Korea, Chuck Berry and beatniks. My ...