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There is an abundance of good sites on the Web about Franklin D. Roosevelt, other influential people in his Administration, Eleanor Roosevelt, and significant events related to the New Deal and the Great Depression. This page also contains links to resources maintained by our FDR American Heritage Center. We cannot take credit or responsibility for the content you may find when you visit other sites related to FDR and the New Deal, but all the links on this page have been checked by the FDR Center's researchers before being included here. Our list is also not meant to be exhaustive, and if you know of a good site we have overlooked, please call it to our attention.

About the Roosevelts
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
The Columbia Encyclopedia entry on FDR.

Captain Courageous
The Time 100 Most Important People of the Century. Written by another former President, Bill Clinton.

Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The official White House biography.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
On the History Channel web site.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography
On the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia web site.

FDR: The Man, the Presidency and the New Deal, the Memorial, and Impact on D.C.
Articles from The Washington Post site.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Character Above All
An essay by Doris Kearns Goodwin on the PBS site.

Roosevelt, Eleanor
The Columbia Encyclopedia entry on ER.

Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt
The official White House biography of the First Lady.

FDR's Fala, World's Most Famous Dog
"My little dog Fala." Includes the Sept. 23, 1944 speech which made him famous.

The New Deal and FDR's Administration
NewDeal75: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal (1933-2008)
NewDeal75 is a national campaign to heighten public awareness and appreciation of America's New Deal experience, and the enduring legacy of the New Deal in America today. Celebrations in all fifty states are planned from March, 2008 to March, 2009 in commemoration of the enduring legacy of the New Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center New Deal Synopsis
Acquaint yourself with some of the major initiatives of the New Deal to give ordinary Americans freedom from want and freedom from fear.

FDR and the New Deal: The Roosevelt Reconstruction
Read a concise and interesting analysis of the New Deal by historian William E. Leuchtenburg.

The New Deal Network
Archives of documents, photos, lesson plans, discussion lists, and many other great features. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University.

The Four Freedoms, At Home and Abroad
Part of An American Exegesis: An Hypertext Experiment by Gregory J. Rosmaita.

The Frances Perkins I Knew
A previously unpublished 1966 first person account by Dr. Christopher N. Breiseth of the last five years of the life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first female Cabinet Secretary in American history. Dr. Breiseth reflects on his graduate school days at Cornell University, while he lived with Perkins at the Telluride House on campus with a group of thirty students, as well as his close relationship with Perkins following his departure from Cornell that lasted until the end of her life.

America, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
The best analysis of FDR and the Holocaust, by Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel.

Historical Perspectives on Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Foreign Policy, and the Holocaust
A detailed historiographic analysis of FDR and the Holocaust, by FDR Center and Museum President and Founder Joseph J. Plaud.

A Short History of the Tennessee Valley Authority
From the New Deal to a New Century.

New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard.

Works Progress Administration - New Deal Art During the Great Depression
The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions of the W.P.A. created under Federal Project One.

Works Progress Administration Sites
Discover the cultural and artistic legacies of the New Deal.

New Deal Acronyms: Alphabet Soup and the New Deal
For those of us who have trouble keeping the TLAs straight.

New Deal 75th Anniversary (1933-2008) Celebration
The Home of America's New Deal Heritage 75th Anniversary National Celebrations. The mission of NewDeal75 is to heighten public awareness and appreciation of America's New Deal experience, and the enduring legacy of the New Deal in America today.

The National New Deal Preservation Association
To identify, document and preserve the New Deal visual and performing arts, literature, crafts, structures and environmental projects.

Institutes, Libraries and Centers for Study
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The first Presidential Library, and the largest Museum dedicated to the Roosevelt legacy, located in FDR's home at Hyde Park, NY. The web site has many online resources in their Digital Archives.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
A nonprofit organization advancing the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal.

The Roosevelt University Center for New Deal Studies
Roosevelt University is located in Chicago and Schaumburg, IL.

The Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
For three-quarters of a century, Roosevelt Warm Springs has been “empowering individuals with disabilities to achieve personal independence.”

The Roosevelt Institution
America's first student think tank, the Roosevelt Institution brings together progressive students situated outside the day-to-day political process to develop new solutions for the new challenges facing American society.

The Roosevelt Institution: Address by Katrina vanden Heuvel, April 25, 2006
The Editor and Publisher of The Nation magazine discusses the importance of The Roosevelt Institution, America's first student think tank.

Documents and Speeches
The Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Transcriptions of the famous radio addresses by the President.

The Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
A significant digital library relating to the Roosevelt Presidency.

The Four Freedoms
State of the Union address delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941.

FDR's "Economic Bill of Rights"
FDR's vision for the security and economic liberty of the American people in war and peace.

First Inaugural Address
Full text of the inaugural addresses, on Bartleby.com

The Pearl Harbor Speech
"A day which will live in infamy."

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project at the George Washington University.

Important Events and the Great Depression
FDR's Inaugurations
Within a Library of Congress web site about presidential inaugurations, start with the First FDR Inauguration. "All we have to fear is fear itself." Then click on NEXT to see each of the other three. Read the text of the Inaugural Address, see pictures of the event and other mementos.

The New Deal and World War
Chapter 10 of the University of Utrecht's An Outline of American History.

The Great Depression and The New Deal
Traces the causes of the Depression as well as comparing the philosophies of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt.

Historic Places
Springwood, the Roosevelt Family Home
Now a National Historic Site, Springwood was the Hyde Park home of the Roosevelt family, when they were not at Campobello, Canada or New York City.

The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
The National Park Service now operates Springwood as part of a National Historic Site.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Campobello Island was the site of the Roosevelt summer home. FDR was vacationing at Campobello when he was first stricken with polio.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Ties to Georgia
FDR spent a great deal of time in the healing waters of Warm Springs, GA and came to think of Georgia as a second home.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia
FDR's home in Warm Springs, GA maintained as part of Georgia's state parks and historic sites.

Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park at Pine Mountain, Georgia
Located near Callaway Gardens and the town of Warm Springs in Georgia, this magnificent park is deeply rooted in the historical era of four-time President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
On May 2, 1997, President Clinton officially opened the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The History of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
There are four main rooms in the Memorial, each symbolizing one of FDR's terms of office.

The Presidential Yacht Potomac
FDR's "Floating White House."

The Delano Homestead Bed and Breakfast
FDR's maternal family homestead, now a bed and breakfast, is a stunning example of transitional late Federal / Greek Revival architecture.

United States Presidency Resources
A History of the United States Presidency
Stanley L. Klos presents a brief history of the American Presidency from 1774 to 1779 making the case that 10 men served as President of the United States in Congress Assembled before George Washington.