Lectures
Our staff, advisors and associates often give talks and tours on the New Deal and the Living New Deal project for other organizations, both online and to live audiences.
- March 26, 2024March 26 Webinar: "Folk Music and the New Deal"JOIN US VIA ZOOMTHE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 5pm-6pm Pacific Time "Folk Music and the New Deal:Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression” With Sheryl Kaskowitz and Catherine Hiebert Kerst. Many people are familiar with the New Deal's legacy in the visual arts, but the soundtracks left ...
- February 29, 2024“A New Deal for Quilts”Thursday, February 29, 2024. 5pm-6pm PT Whether in our collective romanticized memory, covering our bodies as we sleep, or handing on museum gallery walls, quilts are potent objects, and the US government harnessed that power to relieve the impact of the Great Depression.” — Janneken Smucker A New Deal for Quilts (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the ...
- November 20, 2023Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for WomenFeaturing: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Deborah Gardner, and Alice Kessler-Harris Monday, November 206:00 PM (ET) Reception to follow Register for the in-person or virtual event here. ...
- September 21, 2023The First Lady of World War II: Conversation with Shannon McKenna Schmidt - 9/21Thursday, September 216:00 PM (ET)Reception & Book Signing to Follow Roosevelt House will host a discussion of the new book The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back by Shannon McKenna Schmidt. The book is an account of Eleanor Roosevelt's trip to the Pacific Theater during ...
- December 7, 2022December 7 Webinar: COVID-19 and the Great DepressionCOVID-19, the Great Depression, and the Battle between Memory and Forgetting Wednesday, December 7, 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5:00 p.m. Pacific Organized by Living New Deal-NYC Both the Great Depression and the COVID-19 pandemic raised profound questions about government responsibility for public health and welfare, but cultural and political responses to each differed dramatically. Join three ...
- November 11, 2022October 11 Webinar: "The Federal Theatre: Revisiting the Dream"JOIN US via ZOOM Living New Deal Webinars Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 5pm-6pm PDT (8pm EDT) "The Federal Theatre: Revisiting the Dream" with Susan Quinn and Dan Jacobs The Federal Theater Project put starving unemployed actors, directors, set designers, stagehands and writers back to work. Susan Quinn and Dan Jacobs retell the story in their ...
- November 3, 2022November 3 Webinar: Ill Housed, Then & NowILL-HOUSED: THEN AND NOW Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT Join the Living New Deal’s NYC Chapter on Thursday, November 3rd at 8pm EST for a virtual roundtable discussion on New Deal housing programs and policies and their implications for today’s housing challenges. In his 1944 speech affirming a Second Bill of Rights, ...
- December 6, 2022Webinar: December 6 - Revisiting New Deal-Era PhotographyTuesday, December 6, 2022, 5pm-6pm PST "Reality Makes Them Dream: Revisiting New Deal-Era Photography" with Josie Johnson and Emilia Mickevicius Photography from the New Deal-era is often associated with mirroring the bleak realities of the Great Depression. Yet, the photography is remarkably varied, using the raw material of the visible world as a ...
- October 3, 2022October 3 Roundtable Discussion Led by Kevin BakerThe Unfinished Business of the New Deal A Roundtable Discussion led by Kevin BakerMonday, October 3, 2022, 8:00 ET/5:00 PT RSVP Here The New Deal transformed America, putting in place policies, programs, and massive building projects that endure to this day. From Social Security to bank deposit insurance and from the TVA to ...
- February 16, 2022LND NYC Branch Webinar: Preparing for WarPreparing for War: How the New Deal Helped America Join the Fight Against Fascism and Win World War II A bicoastal dialogue featuring Kevin Baker (East) and Bob Leighninger (West) on Zoom Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 8:00 ET/5:00 PT RSVP Here It is often said that the New Deal didn’t end the Depression—the war ...
