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A New President Takes Command: FDR's First Hundred Days

Companion to an exhibit about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days in office. The exhibit is designed to provide a "perspective on what we ourselves might see during the first months of President Obama's administration." Online ma ...

https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=exhibits_collections&page=exhibit_detail&id=4630500

FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words

This lesson plan (grades 9-12) focuses on the impact and appeal of two of Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats. ("The first, 'The Bank Crisis, was given on March 12, 1933, and the second, 'On the New Deal,' was given on May 7, 1933.") Includ ...

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=766

75th Anniversary Salute to FDR

"On Monday, July 2, 2007 the Museum of Broadcast Communications held their '75th Anniversary Salute to FDR.' ... The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University [in Chicago] was transformed into the convention floor of 1932." Here you can w ...

http://www.museum.tv/eventssection.php

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

This site contains over 900 posters from Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Created in silk-screen, lithograph, and woodcut mediums, they were "designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatri ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

NewDeal75

Developed for the 75th anniversary of the New Deal in 2008, "the mission of NewDeal75 is to heighten public awareness and appreciation of America's New Deal experience." The site features brief introductions to the "series of social an ...

http://www.newdeal75.org/

Presidential Recordings Program

"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents [Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon] from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to ...

http://millercenter.org/academic/presidentialrecordings

Yalta Casts Its Shadow 60 Years On

February 2005 article that notes that "the dark memories" of the Yalta Conference still linger in the "60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4241863.stm

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939

A browsable collection of images of items derived from the Federal Theater Project, established by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Includes production notebooks, costume designs, playbills, posters, musical scor ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html

Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Home

This site is "based on 100 rare and fragile transcription discs ... supplemented by manuscript materials, including still images, moving images, and oral histories, to showcase how WWII was experienced in Kansas City." Included are audio fi ...

http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm

Fred O. Seibel (1886-1968) Editorial Cartoonist, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Images of correspondence to Fred Seibel from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, John L. Lewis, James Hoffa, Barry Goldwater, and Harry Byrd. "All of them found themselves as subjects in his political cartoons and wrote Seibel ...

http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/exhibit/seibel1.html

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