Resources
FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS
- Frances Perkins: Champion of American Workers by Ruth Cashin Monsell, 2024
- The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America by Kathleen Krull, 2020
- STEADFAST: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights, by Jennifer Merz, 2020
- A Young Person’s Guide to Social Security
- Student and Teacher Guide
WRITTEN BY FRANCES PERKINS
- Al Smith: hero of the cities: A political portrait drawing on the papers of Frances Perkins by Matthew Josephson
- The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins, 1947
- People at Work by Frances Perkins, 1934
- The Cost of a Five-Dollar Dress by Frances Perkins, 1933
- Social Security Administration – Committee on Economic Security Report
AUDIO FILES
- FP’s 1964 lecture at Cornell and others’ oral histories on the Triangle Factory Fire
- FP’s remarks at the 25th anniversary (1960) of Social Security and the importance of the IBM Machine
- FP’s 1935 radio address: Should we plan for Social Security?
- FP’s 1962 speech “Roots of Social Security” at SSA headquarters
BIOGRAPHIES
Available from the Frances Perkins Center or Your Favorite Bookstore
Available from Libraries or Your Favorite Bookstore
- Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray, 2024
- Fearless: A Novel of Frances Perkins and Social Security by Jonna Higgins-Freese, 2023
- “Tread the City’s Streets Again: Frances Perkins Shares Her Theology,” by Donn Mitchell, 2018
- The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work: Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government, by Stephen Paul Miller, 2016
- Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet Member, by Emily Keller, 2006
- Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Naomi Pasachoff, 2000
- A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins, by Penny Colman, 1993
- Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR’s Cabinet, by Lillian Holmen Mohr, 1979
- Madam Secretary Frances Perkins: by George Martin, 1976
- Frances Perkins: A member of the Cabinet, by Bill Severn, 1976
- Frances Perkins, First Lady of the Cabinet, by Don Lawson, 1966
FPC PUBLICATIONS
Frances Perkins Center Authors
- "The New Deal Began with My Grandmother Frances Perkins" by Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall and Charles Hoffacker. Chapter 2 of "Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire," Edvige Giunta and Mary Ann Trasciatti, editors, New Village Press, 2022
- "Advice from Baltasar Gracia’n and Frances Perkins" by Christopher Breiseth and Charles Hoffacker
- “Boomers and Millennials Unite” by Ann Beaudry, 2019
- “No Refuge” by Rebecca Brenner Graham, former FPC intern, 2019
- “Can We Thank Frances Perkins for the New Deal Arts Programs?” by Sarah Peskin, 2016
- “Frances Perkins: The Saint Behind the New Deal” by Charles Hoffacker, pp 32-35, May 2014
- “Frances Perkins – Private Faith, Public Policy” by Michelle Kew, 2013
- “From the Triangle Fire to the New Deal” a speech given by Christopher Breiseth, 2011
- The Kiln in the Garden: Damariscotta River Brick Making and the Traces of Maine’s Agro-Industrial Past by Jørgen G. Cleemann, FPC Research Fellow, 2011 Historic Preservation Thesis, Columbia University, 2012.
- The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey, 2009.
- “The Frances Perkins I Knew” by Christopher N. Breiseth, 1966