A description of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and some of its projects.

In this activity, students will identify three New Deal programs - the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA) - locate where projects associated with each took place,...

Students explore poetry using American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 collection of American Memory, which covers personal stories collected by the Works Progress Administration. In particular,...

From a book, The Great Depression, by David Shannon, you can read an interview administered by the Works Progress Administration detailing the struggle of an Iowa family through the trying times of the Great Depression.

Read descriptions of the various programs for unemployed artists that were part of the Works Progress Administration.

Read about the many programs that were part of Roosevelt's New Deal that targeted at getting the unemployed back to work.

During the 1930s the California Work Projects Administration surveyed traditional musical traditions in Northern California. This is a description and collection of this work.

Article on a WPA program in Milwaukee which provided work for unskilled women laborers. Great resource for students of all ages.

This timeline of the Depression begins in October of 1929 and highlights significant statistics or events, sometimes month by month, through November of 1940 when Roosevelt is re-elected for his third term. From bank collapses to dust...

An account of the African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston and her experiences in Florida while working on the WPA. Includes a complete piece by Hurston entitled "Turpentine," photos and lesson plans.

A brief description of the National Youth Administration, part of the WPA, explains how it helped unemployed young men and women during the Great Depression.

Brief biography on Harry Hopkins, advisor to FDR during his presidency and appointed head of the Works Projects Administration.

From the Library of Congress American Memory project, this extensive online archive contains first-person narratives of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves that were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal...

A brief description of how Eleanor Roosevelt helped to establish the National Youth Administration her reasons behind it.

This interesting resource showcases projects produced by a multitude of artists who participated in the Federal Art Project, part of the WPA, a New Deal agency. Find almost 1,000 posters created for many different federal and community...

After criticism of the early New Deal programs, Franklin Roosevelt introduced programs that emphasized work rather than relief. Read about the new programs of the Second New Deal.

Discusses Franklin D. Roosevelt's First and Second New Deals and the different programs that got people back to work and put food on their tables. Looks at the successes and failures of these programs and the criticisms leveled at...

Although this site concerns itself with the WPA in Indiana, the information provides a good overall look at the Works Progress Administration in the rest of country during the New Deal era.

Library of Congress provides materials from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942. Selections include narratives and songs from ethnic and cultural groups, including African Americans, Bahamian Americans, Cuban Americans, American Indians, and...

Primary source material on California during the Great Depression and how unemployment affected the building of the infrastructure including bridges, dams and power plants.

This site covers many aspects of the Great Depression and the New Deal programs meant to address the terrible economic issues.

Details on how the Great Depression affected the nation and how Roosevelt's New Deal created many relief and recovery programs to try to bring economic stability to the nation.

Article discusses why African Americans supported Franklin Roosevelt despite the slight gains in civil rights offered by the New Deal.

From the very beginning and through the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection of lessons will enrich students studying the history in between and the effects on South Dakota.