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Dr. Lisanne Gibson,who is now at the University of Leicester, looks at the relationship between culture and government during the New Deal era. A power analysis based in the theoretical work of Michel Foucault, Gibson discusses the Federal Art Project, Community Art Centers, the American Artists' Congress, and the SPS ...

Robert Parry, writing for Consortium News, takes a closer look at Dick Cheney's autobiography, In My Time, to find that former Vice-President Cheney was a classic product of the New Deal era and its support for hardscrabble Americans, like Cheney's family.  How ironic, then, that Cheney, like Ronald Reagan, became ...

Civilian Conservation Corps — a government work program rescued the common men in the 1930s / California Historian. "Hunger and hopelessness engulfed much of our nation in 1933 when the newly inaugurated Franklin Roosevelt administration came up with its most successful relief program — the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)." ...

Lessons of the 1930s: There could be trouble ahead | The Economist.   Even The Economist, a securely liberal-centrist business magazine, thinks that we're in big trouble today with every country playing the austerity card in the midst of the worst depression since the 1930s.  They realize the world economy needs ...

The New Deal was one of the great public experiments in American history. Crafted pragmatically by the Roosevelt administration to fight the Great Depression of the 1930s, it helped the country recover from economic disaster and put millions of desperate people back to work. In the long run, it ratcheted ...