PRIMARY SOURCE TOOLBOX
Primary Source Archives
Digital History uses "new technologies to enhance teaching and research." Digital History provides resources on the Great Depression, they include an overview, textbook, documents, events, people, music, film, images, do history, multimedia, for teachers, links, and quizzes. The website contains numerous primary source documents from the period of the Great Depression; to find the primary sources, make sure to scroll over and click on the 'Documents' tab.
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The 'Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945' section of the website provides a concisely detailed summary of FDR's New Deal. More importantly, this webpage provides a number of useful primary sources which serve as useful tools to engage students in the content. The primary sources can be found in the ride panel of the webpage.
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This is my favorite of the five primary source archives! The website is an extension of the National Archives website. Digital Vault allows students and teachers to actively engage in the primary sources provided on the website. Visitors to the website have the opportunity to collect primary sources of their choice, to view a history of primary sources visited, to create a pathway (or timeline) of primary sources, to use the search toolbar to find primary sources from specific eras or topics, and to create interactive projects using primary sources (such as movies, posters, etc.). Enjoy!
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The 'Archives' page of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum contains significant collections of historical photographs, sound and motion picture recordings, books and periodicals. The FDR Presidential Library and Museum website claims they are the permanent repository for FDR's personal and family papers, manuscripts related to his public career at the state and national level, the papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, and of many individuals associated with the Roosevelts' public and private life. This primary source archive is by far the most extensive collection of sources!
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The Miller Center is a non-profit affiliate of the University of Virginia. The webpage contains numerous primary sources, including topics such as: President FDR, the New Deal, Culture during the Great Depression, and many more!
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Analysis Tools
Lesson Examples
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