There’s a new museum in Alabama, focused on the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Writes Alabama.com: The museum building is “not new to DeSoto State Park. It was built in 1940 by Company 472 of the CCC as a… read more
We are happy to announce the winner of our raffle, held at the San Francisco History Expo on March 2-3, 2013. The Expo was a great opportunity to reach out to… read more
Ira Katznelson’s new book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time has been reviewed in the New Yorker. It’s a subscribers-only article, but here’s the beginning of the March 4, 2013 review by Louis Menand: “In 1941,… read more
Journalist Dennis Bernstein sat down with Living New Deal Project Scholar Gray Brechin for a long interview on the fight to save the US Postal Service, as well as post office buildings and murals across the country. Put it together and it’s… read more
For years, conservative think tanks have pushed privatization schemes and Republicans in Congress have followed along. In 2006 Congress put the U.S. Postal Service billions of dollars in debt when it required it to prepay 75 years worth of future employee benefits. Unable to come up with the cash, the USPS is downsizing, setting off a fire sale of post office properties. View map: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S49967306YT Congress has failed address this manufactured crisis. Meanwhile, communities nationwide are mobilizing to keep their post offices open and out of the hands of private developers.
When the New Deal agencies disbanded with the onset of WWII, thousands of pieces of New Deal art were essentially abandoned—left in place, lost, stolen, sold as scrap, auctioned off as “government surplus,” or simply thrown away. Much of it ended up in private hands. Now the General Services Administration wants it back.
In his blog this week, Maryland Living New Deal research director Brent McKee weighs in on sequestration, the parks, and how it all connects to New Deal politics: “The across-the-board federal budget cuts (the so-called “sequestration”) is set to take… read more
Our map, where we are aiming to document New Deal structures from coast to coast,has been growing by leaps and bounds this year. Now at over 2,000 sites, we add new data each week. We’re looking for new research associates… read more
Public radio and television producers over at KQED in San Francisco are branching out into the world of mobile applications. One part of the KQED app. “Let’s Get Lost,” was produced in consultation with Living New Deal founder Gray Brechin. It… read more
Hot off of the press from our friends over at Protect Coit Tower: the first phase of crucial protective work on the Coit Tower murals is nearly done. Click here to read a full update on the fight to preserve and protect these… read more