Resources
The following is a list of all course platforms. You will create your own Omeka and WordPress sites using Reclaim Hosting (we will walk through this together in class) and will need to keep of your own login information. Our course Slack channel will be used for all course communication (do not use email unless). Hypothesis will be used for any annotation assignments. Dropbox will contain all readings not accessible online or through the Mason catalog (password pinned in Slack channel).
Slack: Join Slack channel
Hypothesis: Join Hypothesis group
Dropbox: Access course Dropbox folder
The following list of linked resources are materials made during the New Deal era that are in the public domain and available for use and reuse. If in doubt, check the rights statement on the website. If you find additional resources throughout the semester, please post these in the #general channel.
Most assignments will tell you which collection to use, but these can be useful to explore for ideas to frame class discussion questions or to use in your final project.
- 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
