New Deal History: Revisited & Revised

News items that discuss and rethink the New Deal and its impact on America.

• Hidden Murals Found in Rhode Island

  • February 28, 2012

  New Deal murals by WPA artist Gino Conte were unveiled recently at the University of Rhode Island. Ironically, construction workers hired under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, a federal jobs program, rediscovered the murals, which had been hidden behind a wall since the 1960s...Read more at ramcigar.com ...
• Hidden Treasures: CWA Network of Trails in Prescott Arizona Overlooked for Decades

  • July 30, 2011

  7/28/2011 PRESCOTT - Times were tough in Prescott 75 years ago, but that did not dim the ambitions of a troop of transient workers stationed at the old Prescott Fairgrounds. Not only were the workers busy building many of the structures that still exist at today's Prescott Rodeo Grounds, but the Civilian ...
• San Francisco Model Update

  • September 30, 2010

  Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte's article on the WPA-made model of San Francisco (see News post of Sept. 11, 2010) elicited a great deal of interest in and information on the 3-D map, including a number of suggestions of where it might go. We have followed up on the suggestions; our ...
• WPA model update

  • September 30, 2010

  Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte's article on the WPA-made model of San Francisco elicited a great deal of interest in and information on the 3-D map, including a number of suggestions of where it might go. I will be following up on the suggestions; my chief concern is that it be ...
• Giant relief map of San Francisco discovered in UC warehouse

  • September 11, 2010

  From the San Francisco Chronicle (Sept. 6, 2010): A giant museum-quality three-dimensional relief map of San Francisco as it appeared 70 years ago has turned up in a UC Berkeley warehouse, stored in 17 wooden cases. "It is like a colossal jigsaw puzzle," said Gray Brechin, a UC scholar who helped recover ...