There is an abundance of good sites on the Web about Franklin D. Roosevelt, other influential people in his Administration, and significant events related to the New Deal and the Great Depression. We cannot take credit or responsibility for the content you may find when you visit these sites. Our list is not meant to be exhaustive, but if you know of a good site we have overlooked, please call it to our attention.

About the Roosevelts
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
The Columbia Encyclopedia entry on FDR.

Captain Courageous
The Time 100 Most Important People of the Century. Written by another former President, Bill Clinton.

Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The official White House biography.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
On the History Channel web site.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography
On the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia web site.

FDR: The Man, the Presidency and the New Deal, the Memorial, and Impact on D.C.
Articles from The Washington Post site.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Character Above All
An essay by Doris Kearns Goodwin on the PBS site.

Roosevelt, Eleanor
The Columbia Encyclopedia entry on ER.

Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt
The official White House biography of the First Lady.

FDR's Fala, World's Most Famous Dog
"My little dog Fala." Includes the Sept. 23, 1944 speech which made him famous.

The New Deal and FDR's Administration
The New Deal Network
Archives of documents, photos, lesson plans, discussion lists, and many other great features. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University

The Four Freedoms, At Home and Abroad
Part of An American Exegesis: An Hypertext Experiment by Gregory J. Rosmaita

A short history of the Tennessee Valley Authority
From the New Deal to a New Century.

New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
by Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard

New Deal Acronyms: Alphabet Soup and the New Deal
For those of us who have trouble keeping the TLAs straight.

Institutes, Libraries and Centers for Study
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
A nonprofit organization advancing the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal.

The Roosevelt University Center for New Deal Studies
Roosevelt University is located in Chicago and Schaumburg, IL.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The first Presidential Library, and the largest Museum dedicated to the Roosevelt legacy, located in FDR's home at Hyde Park, NY. The web site has many online resources in their Digital Archives.

Documents and Speeches
The Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Transcriptions of the famous radio addresses by the President.

The Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

The Four Freedoms
State of the Union address delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on January 6, 1941.

First Inaugural Address
Full text of the inaugural addresses, on Bartleby.com

The Pearl Harbor Speech
"A day which will live in infamy."

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project at the George Washington University

Important Events and the Great Depression
FDR's Inaugurations
Within a Library of Congress web site about presidential inaugurations, start with the First FDR Inauguration. "All we have to fear is fear itself." Then click on NEXT to see each of the other three. Read the text of the Inaugural Address, see pictures of the event and other mementos.

The New Deal and World War
Chapter 10 of the University of Utrecht's An Outline of American History.

The Great Depression and The New Deal
Traces the causes of the Depression as well as comparing the philosophies of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt.

Historic Places
Springwood, the Roosevelt Family Home
Now a National Historic Site, Springwood was the Hyde Park home of the Roosevelt family, when they were not at Campobello, Canada or New York City.

The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
The National Park Service now operates Springwood as part of a National Historic Site.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Campobello Island was the site of the Roosevelt summer home. FDR was vacationing at Campobello when he was first stricken with polio.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Ties to Georgia
FDR spent a great deal of time in the healing waters of Warm Springs, GA and came to think of Georgia as a second home.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
On May 2, 1997, President Clinton officially opened the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The History of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
There are four main rooms in the Memorial, each symbolizing one of FDR's terms of office.

The Presidential Yacht Potomac
FDR's "Floating White House."