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The Lowdown
The Lowdown features articles on the people, projects and achievements of the Living New Deal itself.
- A NEW LOOK FOR LIVINGNEWDEAL.ORGThe livingnewdeal.org website has been transformed, the culmination of two years of planning, design, programming and feedback. The new design is receiving rave reviews for its sleek and roomy look and ease of use— navigating via buttons rather than menus and scrolling. An additional benefit is the greater ease of searching New ...
- NEW DEAL BOOK AWARD FOR 2022The Living New Deal presented our second Annual New Deal Book Award to Victoria Wolcott (University of Buffalo). The award ceremony took place at the Roosevelt Reading Festival at FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. LND team members Gray Brechin and Jeff Gold attended the event. Professor ...
- NEW YORK CHAPTER UPDATEOur New York City Chapter led a New Deal tour of Central Park in May and presented a very impressive webinar on Social Security in June. They partnered with Roosevelt House at Hunter College on two other webinars, one in March on transforming the nation's food system and another in ...
- NEW DEAL 90TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTSLed by Susan Ives, the Living New Deal produced two impressive events celebrating the 90th anniversary of the New Deal. The first was held at Muir Woods National Monument in Mill Valley, California, where the Civilian Conservation Corps did extensive work during the New Deal. Our partner, the National Park ...
- IN OTHER NEWSOur Northwest Coordinator Judith Kenny produced the second video in a planned series, "Mapping New Deal Oregon,” funded by the Kinsman Foundation. The CCC's Legacy at Eagle Creek Recreation Area does a fine job of showing off the popular park and its New Deal legacy. In Los Angeles, Research Assistant Natalie McDonald was ...
- PAUL GROTH BEQUESTThe late Professor Paul Groth (UC Berkeley Department of Geography) left the Living New Deal a substantial bequest that came to us in 2023. Paul was a nationally known expert on American landscapes and a great admirer of the New Deal's contribution to the people and places of the country, as well ...
- MILLIONS OF VIEWS!The Living New Deal is attracting more eyes than ever. In November we were featured on the PBS Newshour, which boosted our website to a record 4 million views last year. According to web analytics company, Cloudfare, this puts us in the top twenty-five percent of all the websites they follow. The biggest ...
- TEACHING ABOUT THE NEW DEALThe biggest group of users of the Living New Deal's online resources are students and teachers. The demand for such teaching materials is strong. Many American History teachers have reached out to us with requests and suggestions. Thus far, we have lacked the capacity to develop full-on teaching curricula, but ...
- LIVING NEW DEAL NATIONWIDEThe Living New Deal has become a truly national organization. Our staff and volunteer National Associates across the country are doing great work bringing the New Deal to life. Our public outreach includes webinars on a wide array of topics, from New Deal art to lessons in modern infrastructure. Locally, ...
- "Republic of Detours” Wins New Deal Book AwardScott Borchert is the winner of the Living New Deal’s first annual New Deal Book Award for his 2021 book about the Federal Writers’ Project, Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The Award Committee called it: "...a beautifully written and timely ...
