The
New Deal Network is an online educational guide to the Great
Depression of the 1930s sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers
College, Columbia University. NDN seeks to make the most of the
interactive, communications and publication capacities of the Internet.
Its designers intend to bring many different institutions and individuals
into the ongoing construction of the site and to stimulate students
and historians throughout the United States to discover and document
the human and material legacy of the New Deal.
NDN is funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. Funding has also been provided by IBM, the Open
Society Institute, and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
In 1997 it was selected by the NEH's EdSITEment project as one of
the finest humanities sites on the Web. In 1999 it received the
American Association for History and Computing's prize for the year's
best Multimedia History Project.
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