Mrs. Ruland's U.S. History Class Project
Preservation of American Culture During the New Deal
Anais, Amanda, Kaela, Mary
For our webliography topic, we chose "Preservation of American culture during the New Deal." Culture has always been an important part of the lifestyles of Americans, and when the New Deal began, it was important to keep the American culture. Changes alter people's feelings about certain subjects, as little as food preference or as big as individual beliefs. When a change is occurring, it's important for people to remember what life was like before the change, and also how it's not going to change from an issue. People need to remember to cope with what comes to them, and for some people, doing what they used to do will bring their spirits up and preserve the culture. This webliography provides resources to show how the American culture stayed the same, though there was political change happening.
New Deal Culture Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy Site
This web site contains information about New Deal programs such as PWAP, FERA, WPA. It also contains information on federal projects to preserve culture. There is also information of the censorship of the New Deal.
This site gave us lots of information on the cultural aspects during the Depression such as art, architecture, literature, fashion, music, education, radio and people. It also included many links to other sites with good information.
The WPA Federal Theatre Project
This web site contains valuable information about the Federal Theatre Project. It also discusses the benefits of the Federal Theatre Project on the people during the Great Depression.
Popular Culture During the Depression
This page tells about popular culture during the Depression. If you follow the arrows throughout all the pages, the information gets more specific about certain aspects of pop culture.
This gives examples of how WPA Arts projects helped the people in the West who lived on farms. It tells about the Nebraska Federal Writers Projects and how it helped relieve the misery of the citizens in the West.
This web site defines screwball comedy and how it shaped American comedy in Hollywood. It helped Americans escape from their problems and have a good laugh during the Depression.
This web site shows the different artwork during the Great Depression and the New Deal. It reflects on the ideas in the time period and celebrates American culture.
This site contains a timeline of each year during the Depression. Each year has a separate page that includes arts and culture. To get the information for each year, click on the corresponding year and it will send you to the appropriate page.
This web site contains information about the Federal Theatre Project and their works and plays. It also shows some of the successful artists from the Federal Theatre Project.
This web site has a wonderful display of cultural events of every year.If you click on the different years in the timeline, you can read each timeline filled with information.
History of the United States: The Great Depression and the New Deal
This site gives good statistics about the New Deal organizations. It also gives information about the Dust Bowl and the programs that helped relieve it. There are also other web sites to go to from the page that have more in depth information.
Last updated March 28, 2006
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