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Web Site Review

The New Deal Network <http://newdeal.feri.org/>. Created by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and maintained by the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University. Thomas Thurston, project director and Web developer. Reviewed May 20–Sept. 26, 2001.

When launched in 1996, The New Deal Network overnight became one of the first and largest historical archives to make use of the World Wide Web. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and maintained by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University's Teacher's College, the site has been consistently one of the nation's most popular historical sites both for its unparalleled archive of source materials devoted to the New Deal and for its pioneering efforts to use this new medium of the Internet to create a "network" of interested secondary and college teachers, the general public, and, to a somewhat lesser degree, scholars. 1

The archive currently contains twenty thousand items, of which seven hundred are documents; the rest are images. The editorial selection of documents has been self-consciously eclectic, guided by the particular interests of the editorial staff, serendipitous archival or publishing opportunities, or requests by the participants in the network for particular materials. Visitors seeking comprehensive or evenly balanced documentation of New Deal activities will inevitably be disappointed, but others will delight in the substantial clumps of sources around such appealing subjects as the letters of children to Eleanor Roosevelt, the Youth Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley Authority, WPA (Works Progress Administration) slave narratives, and New Deal murals. The editors have created seventeen special multimedia features, lesson plans, and presentations that provide a scholarly context for a large number of these sources. . . .

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