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This is a clip from the film "Emergency Conservation Work in Great Smoky Mountains National Park" (1936)

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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