Timelines:

Click here for timeline.

Fact sheets and lesson plans:

Fact sheet:

Great Depression and the New Deal
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us34.cfm

Recommended lesson plan:

The New Deal Lesson Plans
http://www.newdeal.feri.org/classrm/classlp.htm

Fact checks:

Test your knowledge about the Great Depression

Recommended readings:

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
The Pulitzer-prize winning history of the Great Depression and World War II.

Recommended film:

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The classic study of a World War I veteran unjustly imprisoned on a Georgia chain gang.

Learn more:

Hollywood and the Great Depression

Recommended Web site:

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Containing 5000 photographs, 900 primary source documents, and many special features, the New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College of Columbia University.

To learn more

This site was updated on 08-Sep-08.