Gray Brechin and Brent McKee Interviewed by the BBC for a New Deal Documentary
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Restoration of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Childhood Home
An effort is underway to restore Eleanor Roosevelt’s childhood home in Clermont, New York. Eleanor Roosevelt’s grandfather built the home in 1872 and she spent much of her youth there. After decades of neglect, Van Lamprou, a co-founder of Dolce… read more
Bernie Sanders and Co-Sponsors Introduce “Medicare for All,” Echoing Roosevelt’s Goal of Universal Health Care
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and 16 of his Democratic colleagues introduced legislation on September 13, 2017 to guarantee health care to every American by expanding and improving Medicare. The Medicare for All Act of 2017 would establish a national health insurance program… read more
Welcome to our New Project Manager, Erin Reding
The Living New Deal has a new Project Manager, Erin Reding. Erin attended UC Berkeley, where she graduated in 2004 with Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa and best student in Geography. She finished Law School in 2007, then worked for… read more
The Amazing Totem Poles of Alaska
Among the most interesting New Deal public works we have ever documented are the Alaska totem poles restored or recarved by Native craftsmen enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Drawing on materials uncovered at the National Archives, we have… read more
Threat to Greenbelt, Maryland
Residents of Greenbelt, MD have created a petition to save their beloved town from changes in the Prince George’s County zoning ordinance that would weaken protections against ill-considered urban development. Greenbelt is the only one of the three New Deal… read more
Living New Dealer of the Month: Gabriel Milner
This summer our longtime Project Manager, Gabe Milner, moved on to a new job and a new life. Gabe had been a pillar of the Living New Deal team for three years, keeping the operation running and organized down to… read more
The Living New Deal featured in The Week
On My Way to Somewhere Else: A WPA-Built Community Center in Little York, Indiana
Recently I was in the middle of documenting CCC structures in southern Indiana state forests (more on that in future posts), when I found myself on the old state highway that runs through Little York, a hamlet of fewer than… read more
“Building Bridges, Not Walls” Reviewed in China’s World Journal
“Curator Harvey Smith said on Thursday that he would like to show immigrants to the United States through a different [lens]. ‘This exhibition is about immigration, pluralism and internationalism, and I hope that the contributions of these immigrants can be… read more