Upcoming Teacher Workshops at the East Tennessee History Center
Field Trips or Outreach Programs from East Tennessee History Center
ETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources, and Student Activities
Key Words: Cumberland Homesteads, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal, Cumberland Plateau
Key Words: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Franklin Roosevelt, Civilian Conservation Corp, Great Depression
Key Words: Tennessee Valley Authority, New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, Norris Dam, Great Depression
Norris Dam Primary Source Sets:
TVA and the New Deal Lesson Plan
Herbert Hoover Rugged Individualism vs FDR First Inaugural
Years of Dust, Death and Destruction Lesson Introduction
Years of Dust, Death and Destruction Activity Cards
The Great Depression and New Deal
Primary source set on New Deal in Tennessee
Primary Source set and Teacher’s Guide from Library of Congress on New Deal
Tennessee State Museum: Great Depression
Resources on The Great Depression from the Tennessee State Museum
Digital collection of photographs by the Thompson Brothers on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Excellent article of the history of eminent domain in the United States
This website was developed by TVA and has great resources including images and interviews for teaching about TVA and the New Deal
Exhibit from National Archives Atlanta on TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority and the New Deal
“Arthur E. Morgan’s Ethical Code for the Tennessee Valley Authority.” Ed. by Roy Talbert, Jr.The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 40 (1968): 119-127.
“Families of the Norris Reservoir Area: The photographs of Marshall Wilson.” Tennessee Ancestors 3, no. 2 (August 1987): 74-88.
Lowitt, Richard. “ ‘Present at the Creation’: George W. Norris, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the TVA Enabling Act.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 48 (1976): 116-126.
McDonald, Michael J. and John Muldowny. “Reburying the Dead: Disinterment and Reinterment at TVA’s Norris Dam.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications 47 (1975): 118-138.
Purcell, Aaron D. “Power to the People: David Lilienthal Founds TVA’s Electric Power Policy, 1933.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 70 (1998): 90-108.
Rogers, Michael. “TVA Population Removal: Attitudes and Expectations of the Dispossessed at the Norris and Cherokee Dam Sites.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 67 (1995): 89-105.
Talbert, Roy, Jr. “Arthur E. Morgan’s Social Philosophy and the Tennessee Valley Authority.” The East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications (1969): 86-99.
Walker, Melissa. “Making Do and Doing Without: East Tennessee Farm Women Cope with Economic Crisis, 1920-1941.” The Journal of East Tennessee History 68 (1996): 8-30.