Kara Murphy Schlichting’s new book, New York Recentered, examines the development of modern New York, including its New Deal history. New York Recentered offers a new model for understanding the invention of metropolitan New York during the city’s unprecedented expansion between 1840 and… read more
More than eighty years ago, the original New Deal put forward an ambitious plan to mobilize the country’s people and resources to bring the country back from the brink of economic calamity. Today, as millions of Americans find themselves excluded… read more
A new exhibit co-sponsored by the Living New Deal and presented by the Jo Mora Trust will be showcasing artist Jo Mora’s works June 7–June 27, 2019 at the Canessa Galley in San Francisco. A prolific California artist, actor, author,… read more
The Armory Community Project needs urgent help to save the WPA-built Sheboygan Armory from demolition. Located in in Sheboygan WI, the 1941 structure served as a community center for decades, but is now slated for demolition to make way for housing development. For the past… read more
The U.S. Postal Service is commemorating the artistic legacy of the New Deal via a new set of stamps. Five historic New Deal murals are featured on a new sheet of 10 U.S. postage stamps. Called “Post Office Murals,” the sheets are now… read more
Proposed Federal Rule Changes Endanger National Register of Historic Places Listings: Voice Your Opposition by the April 30 Deadline! The National Park Service (NPS) is currently proposing rule changes which seek to significantly weaken the implementation of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)… read more
The History of the Indiana State Forests Edited by Ronald V. Morris and Glory-June Greiff | Photography by Glory-June Greiff Most states have a department of natural resources, but the structure and hierarchy varies from state to state. In… read more
We are mounting a campaign to save the historic WPA murals at the George Washington High School in San Francisco. Some parents and students at the school believe that two of Arnautoff’s 13 murals “glorify” racism. One controversial panel depicts… read more
Indiana’s annual historic preservation conference, Preserving Historic Places, takes place April 9-12 this year in Evansville on the Ohio River. Among the educational sessions on the first full day (April 10) will be The New Deal Gardens of Lockefield and… read more
Featured in Art Deco in Indianapolis (Greiff 1980), the stunning WPA-built Naval Armory, the work of architect Ben H. Bacon, has graced the bank of the non-navigable White River since before its dedication in October 1938. At the time of that… read more