Multimedia

The New Deal

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950

Speaker(s): Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Duration: 0 seconds

Changes in Supreme Court Doctrine in the 1930s

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Chat with the Curator: Amelia Earhart and Neta Snook

Speaker(s): Sandra Trenholm, Susan Butler Duration: 0 seconds

Defining Moment: FDR’s First Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

Speaker(s): Jonathan Alter and Alan Brinkley Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s First 100 Days . . . and Obama’s

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s Personal History and Influences

Speaker(s): Alan Brinkley Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s Popularity

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s Use of Radio

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

The American West in the 1930s and 1940s

Speaker(s): Richard White Duration: 0 seconds

The American West in the Depression and the New Deal

Speaker(s): Richard White Duration: 0 seconds

The Impact of the New Deal

Speaker(s): Alan Brinkley Duration: 0 seconds

The Power of Radio in the 1930s

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

Multimedia from Other Sub-Eras

America between the Wars, 1917–1940, Part 1

Speaker(s): Michael Kazin Duration: 0 seconds

America between the Wars, 1917–1940, Part 2

Speaker(s): Michael Kazin Duration: 0 seconds

Defining the Twentieth Century

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Role in the White House

Speaker(s): Alan Brinkley Duration: 0 seconds

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945

Speaker(s): David M. Kennedy Duration: 0 seconds

Introduction to Supreme Court Controversies throughout History

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Severity of Economic Hardship During the Depression

Speaker(s): David M. Kennedy Duration: 0 seconds

Teaching the Constitution

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

The Causes of the Great Depression

Speaker(s): David M. Kennedy Duration: 0 seconds

The Rise and Fall of Federal Power from the Founding Era to the New Deal

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

The Rise of Consumerism in the 1920s

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds