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Social Studies
Herbert
Hoover and the Depression
440 historical documents pertaining to President Hoover and the
Depression: 1929-1933 are available online. The documents are presented
in three formats: thumbnail, full size, and full text transcription.
Educators Greg Carter and James L. Tursi have scanned documents from the
Hoover papers under selected topics of interest to students wanting to
learn more about President Hoover and the Depression.
A
Biography of America: FDR and the Depression
Part of the Annenberg programming, this site accompanies program
21 of the series. There is a timeline, transcript, maps, links to
photographs, and under webography, links to a large number of related
sites.
"Nothing to
Fear but Fear itself"
Franklin D. Roosevelt had campaigned against Herbert Hoover in the 1932
presidential election by saying as little as possible about what he
might do if elected. Through even the closest working relationships,
none of the president-elect’s most intimate associates felt they knew
him well, with the exception perhaps of his wife, Eleanor. The affable,
witty Roosevelt used his great personal charm to keep most people at a
distance. In campaign speeches, he favored a buoyant, optimistic, gently
paternal tone spiced with humor. His first inaugural address found here
in text and audio took on an unusually solemn, religious quality.
Roosevelt’s first inaugural address outlined in broad terms how he
hoped to govern and reminded Americans that the nation’s "common
difficulties" concerned "only material things."
Voices
from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker
Collection, 1940-1941
Voices from the Dust Bowl is an online presentation of a
multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life
of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in
central California in 1940 and 1941.
Depression Era to
World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945
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.
1929 Stock
Market Crash and the Great Depression
An investment strategist outlines the events following the 1929
stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.
Main
Causes of the Great Depression
An on-line research paper on the causes of the depression, the
author warns students to use this as research, but not to plagiarize.
The Great
Depression and the New Deal
Terminology, causes, problems, the different philosophies of
Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, successes and failures of the New Deal
and the legacy of the New Deal are all topics covered at this site.
America's
Great Depression
While still under construction, this page does have an excellent
timeline, facts, figures, and other information.
The Great Depression: An
African-American Perspective
Many books and reports have been written about The Great
Depression yet there is very little known about African-American life
during the depression. The intent of this page is to gather information
on the historical, economic, and social impact of the Great Depression
on the African-American community.
American
Experience: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
The film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy and this
companion Web site offer insights into topics in American history
including race relations, civil rights, the Depression, the Communist
Party of the United States, and judicial due process.
FDR:
Cartoons
Created by a high school in New York in cooperation with
Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential library, this page is full of
cartoons from FDR’s administration.
Social Security
On-Line History Page
This resource on the Social Security administration covers all
areas of its history, but has some very good things about its
beginnings.
Welcome
to Jersey Homesteads
Jersey Homesteads is a web site on the New Deal planned
community of Jersey Homesteads (now Roosevelt, NJ), produced by
Spotswood High School and Hunterdon Central Regional High School in
collaboration with Rutgers University and the New Jersey Historical
Commission. William Marshall, Tom Fruciano, and Bill Fernekes are the
project leaders.
The
Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah
The CCC brought young men from predominantly urban areas to
Utah, where they were involved in land reclamation projects, created
recreational facilities, and built roads through remote mountain and
desert areas. Briscoe and Rich Finlinson of the Utah Education Network
have also published on their website many photographs from the Utah CCC
camps. This site built by students in Utah is an on-going project which
right now is mainly just photos.
Interstate Commerce
Commission: U.S.
Railroad Retirement Board
Combined Average Monthly Compensation by Occupation
computed from annual reports to the ICC on Employees Service and
Compensation for the period 1924-1931 is reported here.
Work—Study—Live:
The Resident Youth Centers of the NYA
During the desperate years of the great depression, a new
blueprint of education evolved in the U.S. that showed considerable
promise for assisting the young people who were among its victims. This
is its story.
Dominick
Gadamowitz Joins the C.C.C.
In 1986 Robert Gadamowitz interviewed his grandfather, Dominick
Gadamowitz, for an oral history project developed by his social studies
teacher, Alan Singer. Dominick Gadamowitz had served in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in 1935. The CCC put young men to work in the
nation's forests and state parks. This is that interview in expanded
form with images added.
African Americans
in the Civilian Conservation Corps
The Emergency Conservation Work Act establishing the Civilian
Conservation Corps was signed into law by President Roosevelt on March
31, 1933. Under the direction of Robert Fechner, the CCC employed young
men between the ages of 17 and 23 in work camps where they were assigned
to various conservation projects. From 1933 to 1942, over three million
young men enrolled in the CCC, including 250,000 African Americans who
were enrolled in nearly 150 all-black CCC companies.
Student Activism
in the 1930s
The Modern American Student movement began in the 1930s. During
its peak years, from spring 1936 to spring 1939, the movement mobilized
at least 500,000 college students in annual one-hour strikes against
war. The movement also organized students on behalf of an extensive
reform agenda, which included federal aid to education, government job
programs for youth, abolition of the compulsory Reserve Officers'
Training Corps (ROTC), academic freedom, racial equality, and collective
bargaining rights.
The Lindbergh Trial
On a windy winter night in 1932 a kidnapper crept onto the
estate of
Charles A. Lindbergh, climbed a homemade ladder, placed a ransom note on
the window sill, and left with the baby of the most famous man in the
world. The ransom was paid, but the child was found months later, dead
in the woods near the house. A two year hunt for the murderer ensued.
Arrested and charged was 35-year-old Bronx carpenter Bruno Richard
Hauptmann. The trial that followed created a worldwide sensation that
continues to this day.
1930s
Timeline
This timeline features the years 1931-1939 in politics, culture,
science and the world. While 1930 is shown in the timeline, it doesn’t
seem to link.
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