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New Deal History: Revisited & Revised
News items that discuss and rethink the New Deal and its impact on America.
- Narratives of Former Slaves Interviewed by FWPAs part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well as 500 black and white photographs of former slaves. This collection, housed at the Library of Congress, provides an important window into the American past and the ...
- How Roosevelt Harnessed the Great DepressionWe recently came across an excellent series of articles on the New Deal by an old friend, historian Phil Scranton of Rutger University-Camden, written for a series called Echoes run by Bloomberg News. The latest is How Roosevelt Harnessed Economic Recovery, and there are others on How Public Power Jump ...
- Happy belated Birthday, Dorothea Lange!From the wonderful Garrison Keillor at the Writer’s Almanac comes this entry on New Deal documentarian Dorothea Lange, written on May 26, 2013. (You can see some of Lange's incredible ouvre here on the web site of New York's Museum of Modern Art.) "It's the birthday of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, born Dorothea Margaretta ...
- New on the site: A New Deal Filmography!One of our trusty researchers has spent the last couple months digging up data on New Deal-related films. The result is an incredibly rich resource with details on 100 -- yes 100! -- films and videos that were either made through New Deal programs or that address New Deal histories ...
- “We Patch Anything”: WPA Sewing Rooms in Fort Worth, Texas Work programs for women were first established in 1933 through the Women’s Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Some women were placed in clerical jobs or worked as librarians, others went to work canning, gardening, and sewing. The Fort Worth seamstresses took great pride in their work, proclaimingWork programs for women were first established in 1933 through the Women’s Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Some women were placed in clerical jobs or worked as librarians, others went to work canning, gardening, and sewing. The Fort Worth seamstresses took great pride in their work, proclaiming ...
- Happy Birthday, WPA! From Garrison Keillor:Public radio icon Garrison Keillor celebrated the birth of the WPA this morning with this story: "On this day in 1935, Franklin Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal's largest and most ambitious agency. During its run, which ended in 1943 and cost about $11 billion, the WPA employed ...
- Guest Essay: Educating Its Workforce: The CCC at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, 1938-1942, 1938-1942While working on his Ph.D dissertation, Mark Barron has pulled out some great stories from his research to share with the Living New Deal. Enjoy: While conducting research in my hometown of Marietta, GA for an upcoming dissertation that looks at metropolitan politics in the 1930s and 1940s, I was reminded ...
- A Treasure Trove of New Deal PostersFrom the Aerogramme Writers' Studio, a blog on books and writing, comes this lovely collection of 35 New Deal posters, along with a link to the Library of Congress, which has a collection of more than 900 items: "Between 1936 and 1943 thousands of boldly coloured and graphically diverse posters were ...
- New Deal Coffee Break: Dear Mrs. RooseveltWoody Guthrie (via Bob Dylan) on the Roosevelts: https://youtu.be/9tXhb--FFBQ Full lyrics here: https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Dear_Mrs_Roosevelt.htm ...
- Park Ridge Illinois Celebrates Restored Post Office Mural!A post office mural rescued by a high school history teacher and restored through the contributions of scores of citizens has returned by public view after more than 40 years. “Indians Cede the Land” by George Melville Smith was installed at the Park Ridge, Illinois Post Office in 1940. It remained ...