During the Great Depression, thousands of Americans wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt each week, asking him or his wife Eleanor for help, praising or criticizing his most recent radio address to the nation (known as “fireside chats”), or simply describing the state of their lives.

During the Great Depression, thousands of Americans wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt each week, asking him or his wife Eleanor for help, praising or criticizing his most recent radio address to the nation (known as “fireside chats”), or simply describing the state of their lives.

Your assignment: read some of these letters HERE and HERE. (And yes, I’m aware that there are a lot of letters at the second linked site. Read about half of the ones listed there, please.) Then, come back here and respond to what you read. What commonalities did you see? Why did the writers think the President or First Lady could help? Do the letters remind you of any other times or experiences in American history?

An initial post of about 3-4 paragraphs would be great

*These are the professors notes*

Links:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/137/

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/children_depression/help_president.cfm

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