General Information on American history for The Roosevelts project:

• The Sage Page for American History
• History 122: U.S. History II
• General American History Links
• Franklin Roosevelt Links

• Theodore Roosevelt National Park Site has information about the Roosevelt family.
• The Theodore Roosevelt Association Home Page, which will take you to more information.
• Project Bartleby at Columbia University has a TR section which includes, among other things, an online version of his autobiography.
• The Franklin Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives at Marist College has much FDR information.

• Alfred Thayer Mahan: Looking Outward A Navalist looks at the need for an American Empire.
• Cleveland on Hawaii President Cleveland rejects the annexation movement.
• McKinley's Message on Cuba A strange call for a declaration of war.
• The Teller Amendment The Anti-imperialists salvage something—no annexation of Cuba.
• Albert J. Beveridge on the New American Empire An American version of the White Man's burden.
• Walter Hines page on the S-A War whenyou go to war, even if you win you cannot be sure what that will mean.
• The Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League Why America does not need an Empire. 
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine TR's Big Stick philosophy.
• John Hay's Open Door Policy “Let's give everybody a chance to make money in China.”

• Trusts
• TR on Labor Issues and Collective Bargaining
• Conservation
• The “New Nationalism”—1910
• Progressive Party Acceptance Speech, 1912
• Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous LifeTheodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, 1905

• Highlights of the New Deal
• Crash!
• A View of Poverty
• The Depression and Self-Esteem
• The Depression in Chicago
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Fireside Chat—1934
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: 2nd Inaugural AddressRadio Address by Harry Hopkins
• Senator Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Program
• The Social Social Security Act 
• The National Industrial Recovery Act 

Here you have a lot to work with.  Eleanor wrote a newspaper column almost daily for years, and collections of those columns  exist.  She also wrote memoirs (This I Remember) and was in the news all the time.  I invite you to look at her career after FDR's death when among other things she became our ambassador to the United Nations.  I will try to find you some more links to Eleanor material, and if find you any send them along and I'll post them here.

Some Links to sites about Eleanor Roosevelt:

• PBS: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE— A web site about ER.
• The White House page on Eleanor Roosevelt.
• The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY
• The Women's International Center page on ER.
• The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill.
• An Eleanor Roosevelt home page.
• The Marian Anderson letter and pictures.

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Sources relating to FDR and World War II:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, “I Hate War” Speech, Chautauqua, 1936
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Quarantine Speech, 1937
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Fireside Chat on the Outbreak of World War II, 1939
• FDR and Winston Churchill: The Atlantic Charter, 1941
• FDR: “Hand that Held the Dagger” Speech, Charlottesville, June 1940
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Arsenal of Democracy, 1940
• FDR: “A Day of Infamy” (Pearl Harbor)
• Hiroshima

Other Sources

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
• Look here for information on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Collection of Presidential Speeches at Texas A&M University
• Miami University of Ohio provides links to various World War II sites.
• Tennessee Tech lists many sites that have documents on historical topics and other issues relating to the Internet.
• Other World War II Documents
• The Air Force Museum has information on aviation aspects of World War II.
• Visit the Atom Bomb Museum for Information about the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including testimony of survivors.
• Here is a list of World War II Links at Oberlin College.

Additional web resources on FDR and his times:

• Columbia University has a New Deal Network site with much material about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Visit the White House Home Page for a tour of the President's home and for links to information about each of our former presidents and first ladies.
• C-SPAN, in addition to carrying The Senate and House of Representatives live whenever they are in session, also covers the current American political scene ("Road to the White House," etc.) and has many additional offerings of historic interest, including "Booknotes" which appears every Sunday night at 8:00.  Several "Booknotes" program have dealt with Roosevelt directly and indirectly.
• The Library of Congress contains some interesting resources such as collections of photographs and other historic memorabilia.
• The National Archives and Records Administration home page contains information about government records of all kinds, including presidential libraries, biographies of the "founding fathers," and so on. They also offer information on doing genealogical research, for those of you who may want to find out more about your ancestors.
• The Organization of American Historians hosts a web site at the University of Indiana.  Its best features is a long list of links to other history sites.
• "ArchivesUSA" has access to holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories and indexes to nearly 100,000 special collections of documents.
• "History Reviews On-Line" is in its own words "an electronic journal devoted to reviewing books on all fields of history.  It is supported by the De Pauw University and is issued three times a year--Fall, Winter, and Spring/Summer."
• The History Channel carries its schedule on its home page. It presents many fine history related programs, including commercial films, series such as "Civil War Journal" and other shows of historic interest, around the clock.  This site also has the Audio Clips of Famous Speeches referred to on another page.
• The Arts and Entertainment Network carries many history related programs such as "Biography" and other interesting documentaries.
• The Discovery Channel also has much of historic interest. It in turn is linked to other channels which may have more about history.

Speeches and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt

Although Roosevelt never wrote his memoirs (he started once but completed only a few pages) we have much of his private and public correspondence and speeches.  Here are a few items: you can browse on line and find more.

• Commonwealth Club Address, 1932
• First Inaugural Address, 1933
• Fireside Chat—1934
• 2nd Inaugural Address
• "I Hate War" Speech, Chautauqua, 1936
• Quarantine Speech, 1937
• On the Outbreak of War in Europe, 1939
• Speech at Charlottesville, 1940
• "Arsenal of Democracy" Speech, 1940
• The "Four Freedoms" Speech, 1941
• "A Day of Infamy"
• The History Channel web site has Audio Clips of Famous Speeches that include some from the Roosevelt era, including about half a dozen or Roosevelt himself.  Listen to his first inaugural address ("The only thing we have to fear is fear ... ") carefully and see if you can determine what his real agenda was.