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Additional Information and Resources for Chapter 18
Websites and Online Lesson Plans
Part 1 of Hope in Hard Times:
New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942, by Mary Murphy, is
the best thing written on the Great Depression in Montana (and the
pictures are great too.)
You can download
it here. Professor Murphy was also guest curator for a Montana
Historical Society exhibit of the same name. The first chapter of
her That
exhibit is now available as a Powerpoint presentation to download
for use in the classroom.
Find out some of the ways the New Deal affected your community by
searching the Montana Historical Society Research Center's
index to WPA microfilm. An index of correspondence, the list can
be used to determine the types and locations of WPA projects in
Montana. A key-word search using the name of your town or county can
provide students a sense of the range of projects that were funded in
your area.
A full-text, searchable version of the Federal Writer's Project
Guide to Montana is now available. The guide - created by
unemployed writers under the auspices of the Federal Writers Project -
is another legacy of the WPA.
Elizabeth Mentzer's article on Montana's post office murals is now
available online.
The Great Falls Tribune published a
special feature on the New Deal's legacy in Great Falls.
The New
Deal Network, a project of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute, is a website devoted to the public works and arts projects
of the New Deal. Resources are not Montana specific, but do include
primary source documents and lesson plans. The section "Dear
Mrs. Roosevelt" features letters to first lady Eleanor Roosevelt
from across the nation.
The National Archives' Teaching with Documents project has a lesson
centered around
"FDR's First Inaugural Address: Declaring 'War' on the Great
Depression."
Videos or DVDs
Chapter Three, "The
Great Depression," (18 minutes) of Montana Mosaic: 20th Century
People and Events. (Check your library. OPI donated a copy of this
DVD to every public school in Montana.
The DVD is also available as streaming video.)
Fort Peck Dam – 56 minutes
Possible Fieldtrips
Fort Peck Interpretive Center & Museum, Fort Peck
Alignment
to Content Standards and Essential Understandings Regarding Montana
Indians (EU)
Tests and Answer Keys
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Cricket traps, Big Horn County, photo by Arthur
Rothstein, 1939, courtesy Library of Congress LC-USF34-027411-D
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Salvation Army, Butte, 1935, photo by L. H. Jorud,
Montana Historical Society Photo Archives PAc 74-37
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Farmer's daughter in storage cellar, Fairfield
Bench Farms, photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939, courtesy Library of
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