Primary Sources

"Dust Bowl Photographs." USDA-ARS-EWERU. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedi a/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html>. Library of Congress photos show the effects of the dust bowl on farms.

"F.D.R.'s First Inaugural Speech: Nothing to Fear." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 8 Aug. 09. Web. 18 Jan. 2012. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNpxQAN k0M>. The importance of this video is that it is exemplifying FDR S leadership and how he planned to give the American people faith again. "Fireside Chat". National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdrfireside/images/chat-01.gif> Text from Roosevelt's radio address on 6/24/33

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum. Directory of Digital Collection. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/BROWSE.cgi?d b=2>. This demonstrates hundreds of images of New Deal programs.

Harburg, Y & Gorney, J. (1932) . "Brother Can you Spare a Dime" Columbia Records. Warner/Chappell Music Inc. This song captures the desperation that many Americans felt from losing everything, and so we put it to play throughout the site. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pe arl.htm Picture of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the event that led to America fighting in WW2 and eventually led to economic recovery. Lange, D. "Picturing the Century: Portfolio of Dorthea Lange". National Archives. Primary source images by Lange capture the heartbreak of the Great Depression.

http://mediarelations.illinoisstate.edu/report/1011/no v30/letters.asp Picture of President Herbert Hoover, who believed the economy could recover and initiated the corruption investigation.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&do c=68 The Social Security Act was created during the Great Depression to ensure benefits for life and demonstrated one of FDR s reform policies.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/featur es/general-article/dustbowl-new-deal/ This website housed a number of primary source documents regarding Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

"Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and New Deal." National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives. Web. 13 Dec. 2011.http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_ the_century/galleries/greatdep.html>.

These images picture the hardship and struggles of families throughout the nation.

"Teaching With Documents:FDR's First Inaugural Address." FDR's First Inaugural Address Declaring 'War' on the Great Depression. Web. 24 Feb. 2012. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdrinaugural. This is where we retrieved the primary source image of FDR'S first inaugural address