Resource Guide
The following is a list of all course platforms. The Omeka and Wordpress links are to login pages, which you will need to complete assignments once you are assigned logins. Slack will be used for all course communication. Hypothesis will be used for any annotation assignments. Dropbox will contain all readings not accessible online or through the Mason catalog (password in Slack channel).
Omeka: Login to Omeka course site
Wordpress: Click to access course blog
Slack: Join Slack channel
Hypothesis: Join Hypothesis group
Dropbox: Access course Dropbox folder
The following list of linked resources are to be used in your assignments throughout the course. Most of these contain materials made by federal agencies during the New Deal that are in public domain and available for use and reuse. If in doubt, check the rights statement on the website. Post any questions you have, or extra resources you find, in the course Slack Channel.
- New Deal Resource Guide
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
- Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories
- FSA Photographs
- FSA Color Photographs
- Alan Lomax Collection
- Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937 to 1942
- Art, Culture, and Government: The New Deal at 75
- Federal Art Project, Photographic Division
- WPA Posters
- Federal Theatre Project
- Now What a Time
- Hispano Music and Culture
- Zora Neale Hurston Plays