Our longtime National Associate and contributor, Mississippi-based scholar Susan C. Allen, has created more than 100 new entries for our map this year. Susan is one of our most prized team members. A Professor of Social Work at the University of… read more
Aymar Embury II, prolific Architect of the New Deal in New York City, created some of the City’s best known features, and nobody knows. To find out more about Embury’s built legacy read this essay by Living New Deal associate, Frank… read more
In order to restore public confidence and hope during the Great Depression, the federal government created a short-lived agency, the U.S. Film Service. Frustrated with anti-New Deal propaganda and obstructionist Republicans in Congress (sound familiar?), Harry Hopkins, chief of the… read more
Just as the controversy over the Victor Arnautoff murals in San Francisco’s George Washington High School draws national and even international attention, New Deal era murals in the University of Oregon’s main library stir debate over public art, representations of… read more
FDR and the New Dealers were idealists, but their genius lay in a hard-nosed pragmatism and a willingness to experiment. The Green New Deal is still mostly a set of potential policies and hoped-for outcomes. To succeed, it needs to… read more
Beginning in 1942, when I was a year-and-a-half old, and for years thereafter, I would spend all summer with my parents in Tuolumne Meadows in the upper reaches of Yosemite National Park. I didn’t know until four decades later that… read more
The river winds from its Appalachian headwaters down the Tygart Valley in West Virginia, where a road known as the Seneca Trail takes snowboarders and hikers to and from Snowshoe’s year-round resort. Nearby, nestled in the crook of the valley’s… read more
By Evan Kalish The 2020 New Deal Legacy calendar highlights another dozen fantastic projects undertaken by various agencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. This year’s collection takes us all across the country, from the Caribbean (U.S. Virgin Islands) to the… read more
On October 30, Living New Deal Director Richard A Walker, will speak about the Green New Deal at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. In 1932, at a Commonwealth Club address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced his vision for a… read more
Residents of Fort Lee, NJ and have been mobilizing to save their cherished historic Main Street Post Office from demolition. The USPS will close and relocate the post office in a newparking garage and the New Deal structure will be demolished,… read more