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Sheila Collins, a New Deal scholar on our Research Advisory Board, has shared with us an article she recently published on Truthout, detailing the New Deal’s impressive imprint on just one town in central Wisconsin: “Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my… read more
Do you live in Los Angeles, or are you planning to visit? If so, Andrew Laverdiere invites you to investigate the legacy of the most interesting period in modern history in the remains of stone walls, roads, golf courses, bridges, and… read more
Berle Clay writes us from Kentucky: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), established by the Hoover administration in 1932, acted throughout the New Deal as a financial engine, creatively funding agencies as diverse as the Commodity Credit Corporation and the… read more
Through the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), 6,600 out-of-work authors and journalists chronicled the landscape (See: The American Guide Series); catalogued experiences with racism, past and present (See: Richard Wright’s enduringly topical “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” [1937] and the Slave Narratives);… read more
A reminder: When you visit the San Francisco Bay Area, you visit “a landscape transformed by the New Deal.” Writing in this month’s journal of the Association of American Geographers in anticipation of the organization’s meeting in San Francisco this… read more
Remember when “Socialism” wasn’t a dirty word? In fact, it used to be “an American tradition,” one with deep national roots and a far-flung influence. This past Thursday, October 29, Richard Wolff reminded us that Socialism, and all the other… read more
Leslie Correll writes from Oakland about her father: Richard V. (Dick) Correll was on the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Seattle, specializing in printmaking, but he also produced drawings, gouache paintings, and two murals for a high school in… read more
Monday on KALW’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, Richard Wolff spoke about the wealth gap brought about by modern capitalism (an often-ignored “redistribution of wealth”), and that dirty word—“Socialism”—in our current political and cultural climate. Dr. Wolff will speak at our… read more
Between 1937 and 1939, Native American and Latino New Mexicans employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed the Old Santa Fe Trail building, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Made of materials drawn from a nearby CCC camp,… read more
The Living New Deal invites you to our Fall Benefit, featuring Dr. Richard D. Wolff, Economist and Founder of Democracy at Work. On Thursday, October 29, Dr. Wolff will be giving a talk at the Berkeley City Club, entitled, “Another… read more
