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The Presidents
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EDSITEment Lesson Plans and Reviewed Websites for use with PBS's
The Presidents series on the Modern Presidency
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal
- FDR's
Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
In this lesson which focuses on two of FDR's Fireside Chats, students
gain a sense of the dramatic effect of FDR's voice on his audience,
see the scope of what he was proposing in these initial speeches, and
make an overall analysis of why the Fireside Chats were so successful.
Related Video Clip: "Above
All, Try Something"
- The
Social Security Act
This lesson engages students in the debate over the Social Security
Act that engrossed the nation during the 1930s.
Related Video Clip: "Hard
Times"
- African-Americans
and the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal recovery and relief program
provided more than a quarter of a million young black men with jobs
during the Depression. By examining primary source documents students
analyze the impact of this program on race relations in America and
assess the role played by the New Deal in changing them.
Related Video Clip: "Above
All, Try Something"
- Eleanor
Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in the 1930s
This lesson asks students to explore the various roles that Eleanor
Roosevelt a key figure in several of the most important social reform
movements of the twentieth century took on, among them: First Lady,
political activist for civil rights, newspaper columnist and author,
and representative to the United Nations.
Related Video Clip: "Above
All, Try Something"
World War II
Harry Truman
- The
Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
Curriculum unit overview. Since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet
leaders had been claiming that communism and capitalism could never
peacefully coexist. Agreements regarding the postwar world were reached
at Yalta and Potsdam, but the Soviets wasted no time in violating them.
Harry Truman believed that the proper means of responding to an international
bully was a credible threat of force.
Related Video Clip: The
Truman Doctrine
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy/Johnson Domestic Policy: LBJ and the Great Society (forthcoming)
LBJ Foreign Policy and the Dominican Republic (forthcoming)
Gulf of Tonkin (forthcoming)
Civil Rights Movement (forthcoming)
Suggested EDSITEment websites
The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
This resource has consolidated, coded, and organized
into a single searchable database the following: The Messages and Papers
of the Presidents: Washington Taft (1789-1913); The
Public Papers of the Presidents:Hoover to Bush (1929-1993);
The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:Clinton
G.W. Bush (1993-2008)
American President
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/
In depth essays written and reviewed by distinguished
scholars on each president and administration. Audio recording of White
House tapes and images included.
Mr. President: Profiles of Our Nation's Leaders
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/idealabs/mr_president.html
Profiles of each president written for elementary and
middle school students. Images from the Smithsonian collections included.
Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
Overview of facts about each president and administration.
Presidential Speeches
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/
Annual Messages to Congress and State of the Union Addresses
for each president
The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org
A joint effort of twelve Presidential libraries. Case
studies, documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating
to the events of these presidents' lives
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