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Additional Resources

Content Resources

A Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog21/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 21: FDR and the Great Depression. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.

The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/index.html
On this companion site to The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl, you will find an eyewitness account, a timeline of the Dust Bowl, descriptions of key people and events, and a teacher's guide.

Teacher Lesson Plan -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/dime/intro.html
This site features a lesson plan about the effects of the New Deal on the Great Depression that incorporates primary sources, including photographs and oral histories.

Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/ depwar.html
This site features an overview of various topics related to WWII and the Great Depression, and includes a variety of relevant primary source documents.

Modules on Major Topics in American History: The Great Depression
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module18/index.html
In this module, you can access an overview of the time period, primary source documents, learning tools, visual aids, and additional resources.

The National Archives: Declaring "War" on the Great Depression
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-inaugural/
On this site, you will find a lesson plan entitled "Teaching With Documents: FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression," which includes a background essay, primary sources, standards correlations, and additional Internet resources.

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
This comprehensive site on the New Deal includes a document library, photo gallery, classroom resource center, a moderated discussion for teachers and historians, and much more.

Best of History Web Sites: Great Depression
http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_GreatDepression.shtml
This site provides an extensive annotated list of links related to the Great Depression.

Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html
On this site, you will find the transcripts of FDR's fireside chats from 1933-1944, including chats entitled "On the Bank Crisis," "Outlining the New Deal Program," and "On the Currency Situation."

Digital History: Depression
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=24
This site includes readings, primary sources, audio and visual materials, and resources for teachers related to the Great Depression.

America in the 1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/timefr.html
This site, which includes sections devoted to film, print, and radio in the 1930s, features an interactive timeline that covers each of the following categories: Politics and Society; Science and Technology; Arts and Culture; and World Events.

Strategy Resources

The Learning Page: Lesson Plans
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/theme.html
This site includes several lesson plans that use literature and poetry to teach a variety of topics in American history.

Mark Twain and the American West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson02.htm
On this site, you will find a lesson plan that connects the life and writings of Mark Twain to the American West.

Kazan, Miller, and the McCarthy Era
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/education/lesson30_procedures.html
This site features a lesson plan that uses Arthur Miller's The Crucible to discuss McCarthyism, HUAC, and Elia Kazan's role in the HUAC hearings.

Jim Crow and Literature
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/amliterature/amliterature.htm
On this site, you will find lesson plans that look at how different American novels, such as A Raisin in the Sun and The Color Purple, address the history of the Jim Crow years.

American Literature and Slavery
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/amliterature/overview.htm
This site provides lesson plans, a book list, and additional links that combine history and American literature to teach about slavery.

History Web Site
http://education.boisestate.edu/bdavies/Default.htm
This site, designed to help Idaho teachers bring American history to life using historical fiction, links U.S. history topics to relevant historical novels.

Using Historical Fiction in the History Classroom
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/cthistory/ 81.ch.10.x.html
This article discusses why the use of historical fiction can be valuable to the history class, and includes guidelines for using historical fiction and suggested strategies for the history classroom.

Documenting the American South: Library of Southern Literature
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/texts.html
This site contains an extensive collection of literature from the American South published before 1924, with each entry linked to the full text of the piece of literature and related resources.