1930s Web Sites

America in the 1930s (UVA)

New Deal Network

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

Franklin D. Roosevelt Archives

A New Deal for the Arts

Diego Rivera Mural

Center for New Deal Studies

Riding the Rails

Social Security Administration History

The Mercury Theater

The Fireside Chats of FDR

Picture America

Father Coughlin (These documents are linked to a site with anti-Semitic and racist materials. Use with caution.)

FDR Social Security speech

FDR 1939 Fireside Chat

Amelia Earhart

Social Security Article by Abraham Epstein

Voices From the Dust Bowl

Movie of A Dust Storm

Using the Web to Explore the Great Depression

Communism in Washington State

Florida New Deal Initiative

September 21, 1939: A Day in Radio

Franklin D. Roosevelt Heritage Center

Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches

Wikipedia

 

Library of Congress: American Memory

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (not searchable at this time)

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933