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Description:
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"In keeping with its search for fresh approaches to educating students and the public about the Roosevelt era and its legacy, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) created the New Deal Network, a research and teaching resource on the World Wide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal. FERI launched NDN in October 1996 with the assistance of IBM, Marist College, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and continued its development in cooperation with the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University from 1997 to 2001. NDN was developed with a grant from the NEH. The site continues to be maintained by FERI but additional content is no longer being developed at this time. For more information on FERI, visit our website www.feri.org.
"At the core of the New Deal Network is a database of primary source materials—photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents)— gathered from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources. Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously accessible only to scholars. Unlike many databases on the Web, which represent the holdings of a particular institution, NDN is drawing from a wide variety of sources around the country to create a theme-based archive.
"NDN seeks to make the most of the interactive, communications and publication capacities of the Internet. Many different institutions and individuals were brought in to develop the site and to stimulate students and historians throughout the United States to discover and document the human and material legacy of the New Deal."
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