There are many websites with general information about Frances Perkins that can be found easily through web searches.  The sites listed here were chosen specifically for teachers and students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of Frances Perkins and the New Deal era.

http://kirstindowney.com/readers_guide

This reader’s guide to Downey’s 2009 biography of Frances Perkins has fifteen thoughtful discussion questions suitable for readers of all ages. The site’s introduction states:  “Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. As the first female cabinet secretary, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America’s working people while juggling her own complex family responsibilities. Perkins’s ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare and legislation in the nation’s history, including unemployment compensation, child labor laws, and the forty-hour work week.”

http://www.ssa.gov/history/fperkins.html

This website of the Social Security Administration has a biographical statement about Frances Perkins and audio clips and transcripts of some of her speeches.

https://www.nps.gov/features/shen/2019/ccc/

This interactive curriculum teaches the fundamentals of social and political history through the events of the Great Depression using the stories of real people, real experiences, and real places of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/teachers.html

This website was developed by educators at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, New York.  It has curriculum guides and information about teacher workshops and onsite school programs.  See especially the curriculum guide titled “Our Plain Duty:  FDR and America’s Social Security.”

https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/perkins

This online exhibit titled “Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal” features correspondence, manuscripts, notes, drafts of speeches, photographs, and memorabilia from Columbia University’s extensive collection of Frances Perkins’ papers housed at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/perkinsf/toc.html

This site contains an extensive oral history of Frances Perkins recorded from 1951-55 by Dean Albertson of Columbia University.  It includes full transcripts of the interviews as well as audio clips of selected segments.