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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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The Fight to Save the Arnautoff Murals at George Washington High School
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The Fearless Federal Theater
Compared to the New Deal’s overall expenditures, the budget of the WPA arts projects was laughably small, and the Federal Theater Project’s was even smaller—a mere tenth of one percent. But the Federal Theater, begun in 1935 under the bold… read more
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“Republic of Detours” Wins New Deal Book Award
Scott Borchert is the winner of the Living New Deal’s first annual New Deal Book Award for his 2021 book about the Federal Writers’ Project, Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)…. read more
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History of the District of Columbia’s Recorder of Deeds Building with Peter Sefton
The Association of the Old Inhabitants hosted a video luncheon talk with Peter Sefton. Sefton discussed the history of the District of Columbia’s Recorder of Deeds Building and its architect Nathan Wyeth. “Mr…. read more
New Deal Today
The Mural So Controversial, Nixon Tried to Remove It
by GRAY BRECHIN | OCTOBER 4, 2021. Originally published in Zocalo Public Square 75 Years Later, ‘War and Peace’ Survives, But Its Ideals Have Not As multiple crises pile atop one another in the young 21st century, a tripartite mural at a former San Francisco post… read more
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“How the first New Deal remade America”
Living New Deal advisor, Nelson Lichtenstein, wrote a piece on the infrastructure, social and physical, of the New Deal. Read the piece here.
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- New Deal book Award Ceremony at Hyde Park, NY – June 18th.
Our first Annual New Deal Book Award was presented on June 18th to Scott Borchert, author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. The award ceremony was part of the FDR Library’s Annual Roosevelt Reading… read more
I was a patient at Carrie Tingley in the late 1950s. I was struck by lightning as a small child… »