Ch. 34 - The Great Depression and New Deal
Resources
- Chapter 34 .PDF
- Lecture: Rise and Fall of the New Deal (.doc)
- Talking Points: The New Deal (.doc)
- Chart of New Deal Programs (.doc)
- Talking Points: The New Deal on Trial (.doc)
- Talking Points: The Hundred Days and Beyond (.doc)
- Chapter 34 Outline
- New Deal Programs: Brother Can You Spare a Dime? - 2-week lesson plan from the Library of Congress culminating in an essay project.
* Watch "America: The Story of US" Episode 9: Bust (Teacher's Guide)
Readings
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chapter 15: Self-Help in Hard Times
- "The Radio Priest and His Flock" by Wallace Stegner (1930) from The Aspirin Age, ed. by Isabel Leighton - Father Coughlin
- "The First Hundred Days of the New Deal" by Arthur M. Schlesinger (1933) from The Aspirin Age, ed. by Isabel Leighton
- 1932 Campaign Song: "Cactus Jack and FDR"
- FDR's Inaugural Address, Video of FDR's Inauguration (1933)
Creating Jobs for the Jobless (p. 783)
- Watch "American Experience: The Civilizan Conservation Corps" (54 min.)
- Read and listen to the song "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy" and answer question(s). (1930s)
A Day for Every Demagogue (p. 785)
- Watch Work Pays America: Part 1 (16:13 min.) and Part II (15:44 min.) - A short film from 1937 about "how the WPA's program of public works benefits both unemployed workers and American society."
Huey Long:
- Watch All the King's Men - Based on the life of Huey Long (Learning Guide available) and/or Ken Burns America: Huey Long
- Huey Long "Share the Wealth" Speech
Father Coughlin:
- See FatherCoughlin.org
- Audio: Father Coughlin radio broadcasts 1937-1939
- Video footage: Father Coughlin Before the 1936 Election (5:43 min.)
- Listen to the song "Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat" by Pete Seeger (1932
Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards* (p. 789)
- Watch "American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl" (also on YouTube) (50:39 min.)
- Watch "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (25:24 min.) (1937)
- Read Dust Bowl Diary: Living in the Dust Bowl (1934)
- Read The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie and listen to Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (CD), c. 1940. Songs from the CD: Talking Dust Bowl, Blowin' Down This Road, Do-Re-Mi, Dust Can't Kill Me, Tom Joad, The Great Dust Storm, So Long It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust), Dust Bowl Refugee, I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore, Vigilante Man, Dust Bowl Blues.
* PBS will be airing a new 2-part four-hour Ken Burns film, "The Dust Bowl" on November 18 and 19, 2012 at 8/7c.
If students haven't already done so, have them read "The Great Plains: Dust to Dust" by the Frank and Deborah Popper.
The Dust Bowl Migrants (p. 792)
- Watch "The Grapes of Wrath" - 1940 movie based on Steinbeck's novel (129 min.)
- Dust Bowl Migrants Teachers Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress
- Browse Photographs of Dust Bowl Migrants (Analyzing Photographs and Prints)
- Read "Childhood During the Great Depression" and answer question(s). (1930s)
Hobos:
- Watch "American Experience: Riding the Rails" (51:32 min.)
- Letters from Boxcar Boys and Girls of the Great Depression
- Teenage Hobos lesson plan, Hobos lesson plan
- Information about the Hobo News newspaper
Hobo Music:
- Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock
- Hallelujah! I'm a Bum by Harry McClintock
- Hard Travellin' by Woody Guthrie
- Hobo's Lullaby by Woody Guthrie
- Wild and Reckless Hobo by Posey Rorer
- A Yodeling Hobo by Gene Autry
- Waiting for a Train by Gene Autry
- Hobo Bill's Last Ride by Jimmie Rodgers
London Challenges the Champ in 1936 (p. 797)
- Listen to FDR's Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (1936)
- FDR Campaign Speech Clips (1936)
- Election Song: FDR "Back Again" (1936)
- FDR's Second Inaugural Address (1937)
New York World's Fair - 1939-40
- See World of Tomorrow from Envisioning the American Dream
- See Welcome to Tomorrow
- The Prelinger Archive has amazing color(!) amateur film footage of the 1939 World's Fair. Go to the Prelinger homepage and click on "A." Scroll about halfway down the page to "Amateur Film: Medicus Collection: New York World's Fair 1939-40" - there are 6 reels of footage in total.
Other:
- Document-Based Question: Evaluating the effectiveness of New Deal programs
- Dear Daddy: The Farm Letters - "In her 80s, Martha Linsley bought a small typewriter from Montgomery Ward, taught herself to type, and began to transcribe the hundreds of letters she, her children, and her husband James wrote to one another from June, 1932 to August, 1934. Their correspondence may very well comprise the most extensive written insight into the day-to-day lives of a family dealing with the challenges of the Great Depression."
Links
- The Human Toll of the Great Depression
- New Deal Network
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project - fascinating reading here!
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