What Was the New Deal?
In the midst of Depression, the New Deal put millions to work, gave the nation hope, and left a vast legacy of public works still serving America today.
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New Deal artworks still adorn the public realm – national treasures that should be marked, protected and commemorated.
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New Deal airports, schools, hospitals, post offices, art, highways and more are still in use 75 years after they were built. No city, town, or rural area was untouched by the New Deal.
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Happy belated Birthday, Dorothea Lange!
From the wonderful Garrison Keillor at the Writer’s Almanac comes this entry on New Deal documentarian Dorothea Lange, written on May 26, 2013. (You can see some of Lange’s incredible ouvre here on the web site of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.)…Read More
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New on the site: A New Deal Filmography!
One of our trusty researchers has spent the last couple months digging up data on New Deal-related films. The result is an incredibly rich resource with details on 100 — yes 100! — films and videos that were either made…Read More
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Gray Brechin’s latest on the Post Office and the role of the press in keeping the public under-informed about the crisis of the selloff of our common heritage: May 28, 2013 / In 1906, surveyor Stephen Puter wrote a…Read More
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John Nichols on Lautenberg and the “New Deal Faith”
Nation and Capitol Times editor/writer John Nichols eulogized Senate stalwart Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey_ when he passed away last month, by calling him bold, unapologetic, and a carrier of the New Deal Faith. Among other things, Lautenberg was the fire…Read More
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Book Review – When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy by Roger G. Kennedy
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Book Review – Fear Itself, The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson
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