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Brent McKee & Co. have made a new video to go with the astonishing Google Earth tour of New Deal Maryland. This one is a 10 minute YouTube exercise, “Made in Maryland: The WPA in the Old Line State, 1935-1943”,… read more
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has weighed in on the controversy over closure of hundreds of historic Post Offices, many of them of New Deal provenance and/or containing New Deal artworks. According the Trust’s Press Release, there is “lack of… read more
San Francisco voters approve citizen initiative to preserve Coit Tower murals and strictly limit commercial activities and private parties despite last-minute influx of big business money on negative ads opposing measure (Press release from Protect Coit Tower, June 6, 2012)… read more
David Woolner, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, recently took on the prevailing mantra of budget cutting in the midst of the Great Recession – as if we’d never learned anything from the New Deal’s break with conventional wisdom in… read more
Even a capitalist like John Studzinski, a senior managing director of The Blackstone Group, evokes the memory of the New Deal in proposing a kind of national service program for investing in the youth of Europe and North America, who… read more
France’s newly-elected president, François Hollande, is an admirer of the New Deal who thinks that Europe needs economic stimulus of the kind provided by the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, not the austerity regime imposed on the European Union… read more
On the banks of Big Chico Creek, where the university campus meets Children’s Playground and Bidwell Mansion, lies one of Chico’s most striking, and least recognized, architectural and historic treasures: Bidwell Bowl Amphitheater. The amphitheater is wrought from local stone… read more
Imagine the U.S. without the New Deal, and you’ll get something like the 19th century. Not the Hollywood version, mind you, but a nation of often impassable country roads and unpaved city streets; fetid rivers, lakes, and beaches reeking of… read more
The New Deal’s legacy surrounds us but its overall impact both then and today goes largely unrecognized. Some states have museums dedicated to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and a few New Deal buildings serve as museums. But there is… read more
Thousands of post offices stand to be converted to condos, restaurants, and real estate offices, or demolished to cover the Postal Service’s largely manufactured deficit. Those that rely on the post office are protesting the disappearance of this still-vital public service,… read more
