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The Lowdown
The Lowdown features articles on the people, projects and achievements of the Living New Deal itself.
- LND’s NYC Chapter Launches “A New Deal for New York City”At a time when the Green New Deal is galvanizing public attention, The Living New Deal's New York Chapter has made it its mission to familiarize fellow New Yorkers with the original New Deal: what it achieved, how it transformed the city and the country, and what today's policy-makers can learn from its example. On Tuesday, ...
- LND Events: Commemorating the New Deal’s Built LegacyThis month, we have co-organized several exciting events. Eighty years ago, San Franciscans, with the help of the Works Project Administration, realized a decades-old dream: building a palace for the people on the City’s northern waterfront. On Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Friends of the ...
- The George Washington High School Mural ControversyA heated controversy surrounds the WPA murals in the lobby of the George Washington High School in San Francisco. Thirteen fresco panels of the life of George Washington were painted in 1935 by renowned artist Victor Arnautoff, one of the muralists for Coit Tower. The murals have come under fire because two ...
- Where in the World is Evan: Michigan State Police PostsDuring the 1930s, the Michigan State Police modernized many of their posts with the help of New Deal funds. Evan Kalish, our Researcher at Large, traveled to Michigan recently to research several of these stations. Spurred by a major, state-wide departmental building program, these posts were built by the Works ...
- The Living New Deal Launches Green New Deal ProjectIn response to the remarkable rise of the Green New Deal to the top of the national political agenda, we have created a new section of the Living New Deal website to feature proposals and debates on the topic. Today, as the nation faces critical challenges on three fronts—environmental, political, ...
- WPA Model of San Francisco Fosters Public DebatesA series of events centered on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Model of San Francisco will bring into focus spatial and social change in the city’s neighborhoods since the 1930s. On March 3, a talk by Gray Brechin and Stella Lochman will take place at the SF History Days. Titled, ...
- Recording Everyday Life in New Deal-Built Greenhills OHA new oral history project recently came to life through a collaboration between the Public History Program at the University of Cincinnati and the Greenhills (OH) Historical Society. Seven students set out to interview early Greenhills residents with the goal of recording details about everyday life in resettlement communities built by ...
- Where in the World is Evan: Border Inspection StationsMany historic border inspection stations built with New Deal support still mark the border between the United States and Canada. The facilities that Evan Kalish, our Researcher at Large, documented during a recent research trip to Vermont and Maine were built with Treasury Department funds. In the 1920s, fast-growing, cross-border ...
- WPA Model of San Francisco Restored and Going on DisplayThe Living New Deal, in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and artists Bik Van Der Pol, has worked to restore and reassemble a 1,500 sq. ft. model of San Francisco built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Sections of the model will be on display this ...
- Washington DC Map Research by Project Historian Brent McKeeLND Project Historian Brent McKee recently traveled to Washington DC to document the legacy of New Deal public works around the city. Brent’s research is laying the groundwork for a forthcoming pocket map and guide to New Deal Washington DC. The map will span multiple categories of projects: major New ...