The Great Depression

Dedication of Great Smokey Mountains National ParkETHS Content Essays, Primary Sources, and Student Activities

Cumberland Homesteads

Key Words: Cumberland Homesteads, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal, Cumberland Plateau

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Key Words: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Franklin Roosevelt, Civilian Conservation Corp, Great Depression

Tennessee Valley Authority and the New Deal

Key Words:  Tennessee Valley Authority, New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, Norris Dam, Great Depression


The Great Depression ETHS Articles

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.

Additional Related Articles:

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.