Narrative overview: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash
Roosevelt and the first New Deal
Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal
Biographies: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) : U.S. President during the early years of the Great Depression
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) : New Deal administrator and presidential Advisor
Hugh S. Johnson (1882-1942) : director of the New Deal's National Recovery Administration
Frances Perkins (1880-1965) : progressive activist and Secretary of Labor during the Great Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt (1864-1962) : First Lady of the United States of America during the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) : U.S. President during the later years of the Great Depression and World War II
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) : Secretary of Agriculture during the Great Depression and Vice President during World War II
Primary sources: Remembering a depression childhood
Herbert Hoover predicts a quick recovery
Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address
Praise for the Civilian Conservation Corps
An excerpt from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
Woody Guthrie describes the dust bowl
Remembering "Black Sunday"
Battling the dust bowl and rural poverty
Roosevelt unveils the second New Deal
The Saturday Evening Post condemns Roosevelt and the New Deal
A rabbi's letter of thanks to Roosevelt.