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Educational Resources
American
Memory Timeline:
Great
Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
America's Story
America's
Story is designed for elementary and middle school students.
Collection Connections
Collection Connections provide activity ideas for educators
on using materials in the collections to develop critical
thinking skills.
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White
Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
Summary and teaching resources.
America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs
from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
Summary and teaching resources.
American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936 - 1940
Summary and teaching resources.
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938
Summary and teaching resources.
Built
in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic
American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
Summary and teaching resources.
By
the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Summary and teaching resources.
California
Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.
Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Summary and teaching resources.
Florida
Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
Summary only.
The
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project,
1935-1939
Summary and teaching resources.
Voices
from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin
Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
Summary and teaching resources.
Exhibitions
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African
American Mosaic: WPA
American
Treasures
Bound
for Glory: America in Color
The first major exhibition of the little known color
images taken by photographers of the Farm Security
Administration/Office of War Information.
Life
of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the
Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948
A collection of prints and drawings depicting life in
the United States in the first half of the twentieth
century. The exhibition includes several prints by participants
in the Federal Art Project.
Special Features
"Amassing
American 'Stuff': The Library of Congress and the Federal
Art Projects of the 1930s"
by John Y. Cole.
An
Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives by Norman
R. Yetman.
Dorothea
Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the
Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview
Federal
Theatre Project: The Play That Electrified Harlem by
Wendy Smith.
Federal
Theatre: Melodrama, Social Protest, and Genius By
Lorraine Brown.
Great
Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
From the American Memory Timeline.
Posters
for the People by Carol Strickland.
Voices
from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal
Writers' Project by Ann Banks.
Today in History
Today
in History (April 8): Works Progress Administration
On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Works Progress
Administration (WPA).
Today
in History (June 16): A New Deal: The First 100 Days
June 16, 1933, marked the end of the first hundred days
of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Today
in History (July 8) The Depths of the Depression
On July 8, 1932, the stock market fell to its lowest
point during the Great Depression.
Today
in History (July 25) Macbeth
A brief feature on Orson Welles production of Macbeth for the Federal Theatre Project.
Webcasts
Bonus
Army
Children
of the Great Depression
Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932
Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind FDR
The New Deal Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship, Part 1
The New Deal Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship, Part 2
New Deal Resources: Preserving the Legacy, Part 1
New Deal Resources: Preserving the Legacy, Part 2
The Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott
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