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FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, 1939-1945
presents 1,600 color photos -- rural and small-town life, migrant labor, the Great Depression, railroads, military training, aircraft manufacturing, and mobilizing for World War II. A... (Library of Congress) |
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Bound for Glory: America in Color
is the first major exhibit of 70 prints (made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943) showing the effects of the Depression on people in rural America and small towns... (Library of Congress) |
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Great Depression: Dust Bowl Migration
includes photos, a teachers guide, and other resources for learning about the largest migration in American history. This migration occurred in the 1930s when poor soil conservation... (Library of Congress) |
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America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of... (Library of Congress) |
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FDR's Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program
presents the text of one of Franklin Roosevelt's "fireside chats" with the American people. In this 07/24, 1933, radio broadcast, he addressed issues of the Great Depression and... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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FDR's First Inaugural Address: Declaring War on the Great Depression
provides photos from that time. It includes Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address, in which he said, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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The Grandparent/Elder Project
is a lesson in which students learn about World War I and the Great Depression by locating and studying primary and secondary sources and by interviewing a grandparent or other elder... (Library of Congress) |
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By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
is a collection of 900 boldly colored and graphically diverse posters produced as part of FDR's New Deal. These striking silkscreens, lithographs, and woodcuts were created to... (Library of Congress) |
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New Deal Network, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
provides research and teaching resources devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal, including information on how the Great Depression affected children, and workers... (Columbia University, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
is a lesson plan for teachers that uses primary source materials on the Depression and Southern and African American experiences. The unit emphasizes language arts and offers... (Library of Congress) |
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Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression
is a lesson in which students examine songs, interviews, and photos of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression and then create a scrapbook from the point of view... (Library of Congress) |
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The New Deal: North Carolina's Reconstruction?
invites students to interview imaginary North Carolina residents who lived during the Reconstruction and Depression eras. Each interview is historically accurate and supports a thesis... (Library of Congress) |
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The Great Depression and the 1990s
asks students to research a modern government program having roots in the New Deal. Following their research, students participate in a congressional forum where they debate which... (Library of Congress) |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Effects of the New Deal and the Great Depression
examines primary sources -- from photographs to oral histories recorded by the famous Federal Writer's Project -- to develop a sense of the profound impact the Great Depression had on... (Library of Congress) |
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