Includes links to resources utilized on 6/7 June 2012 for the Des Moines, IA, TAH Project (Great Depression to World War II)

1. Des Moines - Teaching & Learning Packets
Kelly Woestman 5.16.2012
May paper clip/binder clip groupings but please do not staple unless
noted. Thx!
Group 1:
Woestman Session 1/June 6: Comparing and Contrasting FDR and Hoover
1.Attached PDF: DesMoinesHooverVFDRSpeeches
2.Attached PDF: DesMoinesGLIFDRInaugural.pdf
3.GLI Herbert Hoover on the Great Depression and New Deal, 1931-1933:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88287655/Herbert-Hoover-on-the-Great-Depression-and-
New-Deal-1931%E2%80%931933-Packet?
secret_password=besei82fej63g3rokcr#fullscreen
Group 2:
Woestman Session 2/June 6: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Iowa
1.GLI Civilian Conservation Corps Visual and Questions:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88287667/Civilian-Conservation-Corps-poster-1938-Packet?
secret_password=lbfvkey4ic9wek9nl1g#fullscreen
2.Iowa DNR: Civilian Conservation Corps
http://www.iowadnr.gov/Destinations/StateParksRecAreas/CivilianConservationCorps.a
spx
3.Attached PDF: DesMoinesCCC.pdf (MAY STAPLE)
Group 3:
Woestman Session 3/June 7: Understanding Poverty
1.Calculating the Poverty Line: http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/calculating-
poverty-line
2.Attached PDF: DesMoinesCalculatingPovertyLine.pdf
3.A Historical Primer on Economic (In)Equality:
http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/historical-primer-economic-inequality
4.Attached PDF: DesMoinesPrimer.pdf (MAY STAPLE)
Group 4:
Woestman Session 4/June 7: Analyzing Editorial Cartoons
1.Editorial Cartoons: An Introduction: http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/editorial-
cartoons-introduction
2.Editorial Cartoon: Intolerance: http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/editorial-cartoon-
intolerance
3.Editorial Cartoon: Poverty/Environmental Justice:
http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/editorial-cartoons-povertyenvironmental-justice
4.Editorial Cartoon: Hate: http://www.tolerance.org/print/activity/editorial-cartoon-hate
Group 5: (I’ll preview this before I leave after activities conclude on June
7)
Please include the GLI pamphlet: “US Involvement in World War II: A Selection of Key
Documents”
6.6.12 – Additional sites
Great Depression in Ames and Rural Iowa
http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/depression.htm

2. Christmas in Iowa
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/photos/question4.html
The People in the Pictures: Agriculture, the Great Depression, and Photography
http://www.iptv.org/iowastories/story.cfm/wettach/495/tos_20010301_agriculture
Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
http://www.iptv.org/iowastories/detail.cfm/pictureperfect
Farming in the 1930s
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_14.html
The Des Moines Register Remembers the Great Depression
http://www.bigpictureagriculture.com/2010/11/desmoines-register-remembers.html
chart is in first story
Struggle and Sorrow: Iowa Farmers During the Great Depression
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/section/DEPRESSION
1940 Census in Iowa
http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/1940-Census-050412
helps us tell the story of individuals during the Great Depression
The Great Depression Hits Farms and Cities in the 1930s
http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000064
Iowa New Deal Projects, 1933-1941 (Photos)
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?
Avis=D2&Dato=20090220&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=902200811&Ref=PH
The New Deal Brings Relief: IPTV
http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/artifact_detail.cfm?aid=a_000758&oid=ob_000047
short videos
WPA Mural (Des Moines Public Library) – A Social History of Des Moines
http://dsmpublicartfoundation.org/public-art/a-social-history-of-des-moines/
More details on mural:
http://dsmpublicartfoundation.org/paf/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A-Social-History-of-
Des-Moines-Mural_text.pdf
Day Two
7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/02/7-useful-youtube-channels-for-history.html
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/

3. YouTube Videos (googling title is the fastest way to find them ;-) )
1940 Census – Introduction
FDR – Let Me Warn You
FDR and the Grace Tully Archive
Bille Holiday – Strange Fruit
(Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit)
(Strange Fruit: The Film)
(We Will Overcome: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/war.html)
Books:
Eric Rauchway, The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/19001945/?
view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780195326345
(Only $6 on Amazon)
Nick Taylor, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the
Nation to Work
http://www.amazon.com/American-Made-Enduring-Legacy-When-
Nation/dp/0553381326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339080103&sr=8-1
John Dower, War Without Mercy
http://www.amazon.com/War-Without-Mercy-Power-Pacific/dp/0394751728
R. Douglas Hurt, The Great Plains During World War II
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Plains-during-
World/dp/0803229801/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1339079691&sr=1-5
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer ’ s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in
Postwar America
http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Republic-Politics-Consumption-
Postwar/dp/0375707379/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339080269&sr=1-1
Iowa Digital Library Presents: World War II Press Clippings
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/wwii/index.php
German POWs in Iowa
http://www.traces.org/germanpows.html
As Farm Boys Fought in Europe, German POWs did the Work They Left Behind
http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0612024
University of Iowa Libraries Resource Guides – Japanese-American Internment
http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/content.php?pid=23368&sid=168157