New Deal research
-
Court-Packing & Political Cartoons
This website from a high school in New York has a large collection of political cartoons about the 1937 judiciary reform nicknamed the "court-packing" bill. Click on the months to see cartoons that came out in different months.
-
Court-Packing Plan (Judicial Reform Bill of 1937)
A short article about the day the court-packing plan was announced. Good for getting a quick idea of what it was.
-
Court-packing: A concise summary of the "court-packing" issue
from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's website. A good quick overview of court-packing bill.
-
Court-Packing: FDR's Fireside Chat announcing the Judiciary Reform Bill of 1937 (court-packing bill) . This website also has an audio version of this fireside chat.
-
from Library of Congress page
-
Fireside Chats: American Presidency Project
Another list of transcripts of the fireside chats.
-
Fireside Chats: Museum of Broadcast Communications
This site will be helpful for your project because it explains the purpose and importance of FDR's fireside chats.
-
Fireside Chats: Transcripts of FDR's fireside chats from the FDR Library
Click on the links to see what Franklin D. Roosevelt said at each fireside chat.
-
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Presidential library Featured Resources
-
Mary McLeod Bethune: Florida State Archives
Check out the link marked "History"--it has a life history of Bethune with photographs
-
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate about the New Deal.
-
New Deal Lecture from American History 102 class at University of Wisconsin
-
New Deal website from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
-
Did you know the Tennessee Valley Authority, established 1933, still exists? This is the page of their website dealing with their history.
-
