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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 American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940, collection contains typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.

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 Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse by Song Text | Audio Titles | Photographs | Performers/Interviewees Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security ...

The Library of Congress WPA Poster collection, produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, was designed to publicized health and safety programs; cultural programs; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

WPA Life Histories from Connecticut 261 titles List All Connecticut Titles | Search All WPA Life Histories These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Connecticut collected during the Great Depression. The WPA project categories include: CLOCKMAKERS OF THOMASTON; LIVING LORE IN NEW ENGLAND; RELIGIOUS LIFE IN BRIDGEPORT; KNIFEMAKERS OF THOMASTON AND NORTHFIELD; VITA CACCIOLA, THE ...

FSA B&W Photos Documenting America P H O T O G R A P H I C S E R I E S Ben Shahn 1 C O T T O N P I C K E R S John Vachon 2 O M A H A Dorothea Lange 3 M I G R A N T W O R K E R S Walker Evans 4 N E W Y O R K C I T Y B L O C K Arthur Rothstein 5 T E N A N T F A R M E R S Arthur Rothstein 6 F S A M I G R A T O R Y L A B O R C A M P Gordon Parks 7 E L L A W A T S O N, U. S. G O V E R N M E N T C H A ...

Sample images from the book A Guide to Chicago's Murals by Mary Lackritz Gray. WPA murals featured.

WPA Life Histories from New Hampshire 19 titles List All New Hampshire Titles | Search All WPA Life Histories These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in New Hampshire collected during the Great Depression. The WPA project categories include: LIVING LORE IN NEW ENGLAND, YANKEE FOLK and POLISH LIBING LORE. Subjects include: LOCAL HISTORY, including vital records, elections, politics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

People & Events The Bonus March (May-July, 1932) Few images from the Great Depression are more indelible than the rout of the Bonus Marchers. At the time, the sight of the federal government turning on its own citizens -- veterans, no less -- raised doubts about the fate of the republic. It still has the power to shock decades later. From the start, 1932 promised to be a difficult year for the ...

The Supreme Court helped cause the Great Depression.

A Doughboy Heritage Feature THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS MARCHERS Bonus Marchers on the Capitol Steps Following World War I, the U.S. federal government anticipated that its war-risk insurance plan would adequately protect American soldiers and sailors who had served during the war, and that there would be no demand for compensation to those who had suffered no injury during their service in the ...

Home Photo Gallery Classroom Documents PHOTO NOTES Publishing Information The Farm Security Administration Reviewed by Robert Disraeli May 1940 I am not much of an exhibition visitor. Many exhibition pictures are well done technically, but the trite contents and the imitative approaches bore me. A ho-hum is about all one can say after seeing these displays of photographic bromides. They do not ...

Publishing Information You Have Seen Their Pictures by HARTLEY E. HOWE Government photography, focused on the somber side of rural America, has produced some of the most vivid human documents of our times. Here is the story of the photographic section of the Farm Security Administration, told by a writer who knows the men and women behind the cameras. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHS ...