Playlist:  HIST 3678: Week Seven, A New Deal: Initiatives of Change by Kathleen Saylor, Alexander Street Press

This playlist highlights ways Franklin D. Roosevelt put American back to work. Two of FDR's most controversial and successful New Deal initiatives were the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
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March of Time, Volume 2, Episode 1, The Tennessee Valley Authority
in March of Time, Volume 2, Episode 1 (New York, NY: HBO, 1936, originally published 1936), 9 mins  
This short documentary from 1936 gives a brief profile of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
08:32
31 Oct 2014
Wendell Willkie's Conflict with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933
directed by Alan Landsburg, 1933-; produced by Alan Landsburg, 1933-; in Wendell Willkie, Perspectives (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 1962), 2 mins  
Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie's spirited opposition to TVA forced the agency to prove its right to exist. His gracious behavior in defeat helped make TVA's existence an accepted fact.
02:05
31 Oct 2014
Chronoscope, Gordon R. Clapp
interview by John S. Young, 1903-1976 and William Bradford Huie, 1910-1983, in Chronoscope (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1953), 10 mins  
In an episode of the Longines Chronoscope on June 5, 1953, Gordon R. Clapp, Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority is interviewed by William Bradford Huie and John S. Young. Topic: Benefits of the TVA for the people of the Tennessee Valley and the rest of the United States.
09:55
31 Oct 2014
March of Time, Volume 1, Episode 6, Civilian Conservation Corps
in March of Time, Volume 1, Episode 6 (New York, NY: HBO, 1935, originally published 1935), 7 mins  
The C.C.C. was created in 1933, to take the nation's unemployed youth off the sidewalks and highways, set it to useful work. Thousands of jobless boys jumped with the C.C.C. offer of a decent living and money to send home in return for their labor.
07:29
31 Oct 2014
American Experience, Civilian Conservation Corps
produced by WGBH Educational Foundation, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2010), 53 mins  
One of the most popular New Deal programs, the C.C.C. put three million young men to work in camps across America during the height of the Great Depression.
53:07
31 Oct 2014
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The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Parks
directed by Ken Burns, 1953-, in The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Episode 5 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2009), 1 hour 54 mins  
In Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the national parks had found their greatest friend in the White House since the presidency of his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, a generation earlier. The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of FDR's New Deal initiatives, put young men to work in national forests, state parks and national parks. Over the course of the Depression, more than three million men would find work, at one time or another, with the Civilian Conservation Corps.
15:30
31 Oct 2014
Discussion of Shipping Traffic on the Mississippi River in the 1930s and 1940s
in The Mighty Mississippi (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2008, originally published 1998, first release 1998), 3 mins  
In the decade following the record flood of 1927 , the nation as a whole faced an even more devastating challenge, the Great Depression. With fully a third of the workforce unemployed, Roosevelt's new deal launched massive public works projects.
03:10
31 Oct 2014
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