Gray Brechin, the Living New Deal’s founder and Project Scholar, will be speaking in New York City at a public program hosted by the National Jobs for All Coalition: “A New ‘New Deal’ for NYC and the USA.” He will… read more
Brent McKee, the Living New Deal’s Project Historian, recently undertook a massive research effort at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC, resulting in a trove of New Deal discoveries. He scanned over 8,000 photographs, which will result… read more
We have been hard at work upgrading The LivingNew Deal website to make it more comprehensive and user-friendly. To that end, you can now use your computer or phone’s location settings to connect to our online map to view New Deal sites near you. To use this… read more
Among the various New Deal programs to help displaced farmers and the urban poor was the Resettlement Administration’s plan to construct new communities called Greenbelt Towns. These towns were a utopian model of modern living envisioned by RA administrator Rexford G…. read more
Denied admission to art colleges, Hilaire Hiler left Rhode Island for Paris in 1919 where he opened a legendary nightclub. At the Jockey Club, the first after-hours club in the Montparnasse District, Hiler painted the walls with colorful murals, and… read more
New Deal New York, a map recently produced by the Living New Deal is not just any map. This one tells a story—the triumph of liberal democracy in the 1930s. New Deal New York depicts 1,000 sites, showing that the… read more
The National Archives at St. Louis began service to the public as the St. Louis Federal Record Center in 1961 and is home to archival records of military and civil service personnel, including federal employees of the New Deal agencies…. read more
While the nation is transfixed by pitched battles over the removal of artworks representing white supremacy, New Deal murals in San Francisco’s Rincon Annex Post Office graphically demonstrate that such cultural melees are nothing new. Just before World War II,… read more