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The Fireside is the monthly newsletter of the Living New Deal, which replaced our former quarterly newsletters in 2020.
The Fireside features articles and opinion by leading writers and scholars on art, politics, social issues, the economy and more. It features selections of current media coverage about the New Deal then and now, and highlights upcoming lectures, exhibitions, performances and other public events on New Deal topics.
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A New New Deal / Green New Deal
Forging an Environmentally Just Civilian Climate Corps
Neil M. Maher | November 2021
How a New CCC Could Help Meet the Climate Crisis
James Steinbauer | October 2021
Republic of Detours—Rekindling Interest in the Federal Writers’ Project
Sue DeMasi | July 2021
Why Not a Beauty New Deal?
Jerome Segal | March 2021
From the New Deal to the Green New Deal
Richard A Walker | June 2020
All in This Together
Gray Brechin | April 2020
Ten Lessons for a Green New Deal
Richard A Walker | Dec 2019
Green New Dealers Turn Up the Heat
Susan Ives | Feb 2019
Time for a 21st Century CCC
Gray Brechin | March 2018
Preserving the New Deal Legacy
A Greenbelt Town Fights for Press Freedom
Susan Gervasi | February 2023
Digging the New Deal
Gray Brechin | November 2021
Why The New Deal Matters
Eric Rauchway | August 2021
Turning Controversy into Consensus
Bill Jeffway | July 2021
Volunteers “Pitch in” to Save WPA Sculpture at Golden Gate Park
Rob Bakewell | Sept, 2019
Living New Deal Launches New York City Project
Margaret Crane | May, 2019
New Deal Murals Spur Controversy
Gray Brechin | Feb 2019
WPA Model of San Francisco Restored at Last
Gray Brechin | Nov 2018
Reviving the New Deal’s Lost History in New York City
Margaret W. Crane | June 2018
Rediscovering Arthur Rothstein’s “Photo Stories”
Dr. Ann Segan | June 2018
Victory for Berkeley’s Historic Post Office
Susan Ives | June 2018
A New Deal Town Fights for Its Future
Susan Ives | March 2018
Erasing Art and History
Gray Brechin | Sept 2017
Our New Map and Guide to New Deal New York
Richard A Walker | April 2017
“CCC in Idaho” Goes Digital
Ivar Nelson | April 2017
Uncovering California’s New Deal Art
Gray Brechin | Jan 2017
CCC Totem Pole Inventory Needed
Susan Ives | Jan 2017
Indiana’s First CCC Museum
Glory-June Greiff | Sept 2016
CWA Models Found in Museum Attic
Colleen Hicks | April 2016
New Documentary on WPA Artist, Tyrus Wong
Harvey Smith | April 2016
The Lost Artworks of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Kathleen Duxbury | July 2016
Colorado Springs Saves Its New Deal Murals
Barbara Diamond | Dec 2015
Dear Postal Service: Don’t Mess With Berkeley
Harvey Smith | June 2015
Nashville Preserves Its Historic Courthouse
Tara Mitchell Mielnik | June 2015
Recovering the Lost Art of the New Deal
Charles Epting | April 2015
A New Deal Jewel in New York Awaits Revival
Deborah Wye | Dec 2014
Agency Reclaims Imperiled Murals
Barbara Bernstein | Dec 2014
Preservation Groups to Appeal Ruling on Post Office Sale
Jacquelyn McCormick | Dec 2014
Report Tells Congress to Halt Post Office Sell Off
Gray Brechin | June 2014
Fighting to Preserve Chicago’s New Deal Housing
Jason Reblando | June 2014
Ten Reasons for a National Youth Service
John Hooper | June 2014
WPA Posters Inspire A New Generation
Susan Ives | Jan 2014
Communities Fight to Save U.S. Post Offices and New Deal Art
Gray Brechin | Oct 2013
Inequality for All
Susan Ives | Oct 2013
Learning to See
Beth Storie | Oct 2013
For Sale: America’s Historic Post Offices
Susan Ives | May 2013
Who Owns the New Deal’s Art?
Barbara Bernstein | March 2013
Communities Resist Post Office Closures
Harvey Smith | March 2013
Congress to Postal Service: “Drop Dead!”
Gray Brechin | Nov 2012
Berkeley Fights to Save Its Post Office
Harvey Smith | Nov 2012
Update: Coit Tower Activists Win Preservation Measure
Susan Ives | Nov 2012
Public Art at Risk as Postal Service Downsizes
Gray Brechin | May 2012
Steinbeck Festival Honors Voices of Change
Harvey Smith | May 2012
Time for a New Deal Museum
May 2012
New Deal Art Disappearing from the Public Sphere
February 2021
Documenting the New Deal
Dad’s CCC Yearbook Recalls Life in the Corps
Marjory Johnson Wood | November 2023
The Forgotten Coup of 1933
Gray Brechin | February 2022
Discovering the New Deal at the NYC Municipal Archives and Library
Kenneth Cobb | Sept, 2019
On the Road with the American Guide Series
Fern L. Nesson | Sept 2019
Affectionately, F.D.R.
Deborah Gardner | May 2019
New York City Never Stops Eating
Susan DeMasi | Feb 2019
Rediscovering Arthur Rothstein’s “Photo Stories”
Dr. Ann Segan | June 2018
Navigating the National Archives
Cara Moore | Sept 2017
New Deal New York: A Living Legacy for Children
Marta Gutman | Sept 2017
Photographing New Deal Utopias
Jason Reblando | Sept 2017
My Day, The First Lady in Her Own Words
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg | June 2017
CWA Models Found in Museum Attic
Colleen Hicks | April 2016
“Post Office Fans” Hits the Trail
David W. Gates Jr. | June 2015
Key West Photo Exhibition opens July 17 to Honor Arthur Rothstein
Dr. Ann Segan | June 2015
The World in Muir Woods
Susan Ives | April 2015
My Grandmother, Eleanor Roosevelt, Conversation with John Roosevelt Boettiger
Susan Ives | April 2015
Rediscovering Oral Histories of the WPA
Charles Epting | Dec 2014
“The Roosevelts” Premieres on PBS
Susan Ives | Sept 2014
Documenting the New Deal
Susan Ives | Sept 2014
Imagine the U.S. Without the New Deal
Gray Brechin | May 17, 2012
Jobs & Public Works Programs
A New Deal for Youth
by Trudy Goldberg
A New Deal for the Blind
Brent McKee | October 2022
The Lungs of Our Land
Owen A. Kelley | August 2022
Women in the Woods
Susan Ives | October 2021
“Here’s the Deal,” Joe Biden—We Need a Big Jobs Program Now
Dr. June Hopkins | Jan 2021
Just Scratching the Surface
Gray Brechin | August 2020
All in This Together
Gray Brechin | April 2020
On the Road with the American Guide Series
Fern Nesson | Sept 2019
Clabe Wilson and the WPA
Joy Neal Kidney | Nov 27, 2018
A 20-million Word Experiment in Collective Writing Henry Alsberg and the FWP
June DeMasi | June 30, 2017
Building Bridges, Not Walls
Harvey Smith | April 6, 2017
When FDR Clashed with the Supreme Court—and Lost
William Leuchtenburg | April 19, 2016
Did the New Deal Cure the Great Depression?
Richard A Walker | Dec 15, 2015
https://livingnewdeal.org/the-mastodon-next-door/ (Sept 10, 2015)
https://livingnewdeal.org/to-stand-for-centuries/ (Sept 9, 2015)
The Mastodon Next Door
Charles Barker | (May 27, 2013)
Federal Appeals Court Restricts Workers’ Rights
Richard A Walker | May 27, 2013
The CCC: Conserving Land and Youth, Again
Gray Brechin | March 1, 2013
Jobs Crisis Shows Need for ‘New’ New Deal
Martin J. Bennett | Feb 28, 2012
Public Art, Music & Theatre
The New Deal’s Forgotten Song Book
By Sheryl Kaskowitz | April 2024
WPA Music Collector Sidney Robertson Unearths California Gold
By Catherine Hiebert-Kerst | April 2024
Advocating for New Deal Art
By Mary Okin | February 2024
Quilts Embody the New Deal, Practically and Symbolically
By Janneken Smucker | February 2024
Government Website Highlights New Deal Art
By Barbara Bernstein | September 2023
Staged in Stone
By Gray Brechin | September 2023
The Biggest WPA Art Project That Never Happened
By Gray Brechin | March 2023
A Victory for Public Art
By Kate B. Littleboy | November 2022
A Living for Us All
Emilia Mickevicius, Ph.D. | September 2022
The Fearless Federal Theater
Susan Quinn | May 2022
The New Deal Through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein
Ann Rothstein Segan and Brodie Hefner
Audio Archaeology
Gray Brechin | April 2022
The Harlem Renaissance and the New Deal
Stephanie Anne Johnson, PhD | April 2022
Black in the Limelight: The New Deal’s Negro Theater Project
Jonathan Shipley | March 2022
Los Tres Grandes
Harold Porcher | March 2022
A Cornerstone for Conservation
Jennifer McLerran | February 2022
America Needs a Federal Scholars Project
Shannan Clark | September 2021
New Deal Artworks Showcased in Upstate NY
Deborah Bump | June 2021
Turning Controversy into Consensus
Bill Jeffway | June 2021
Republic of Detours—Rekindling Interest in the Federal Writers’ Project
Sue Rubenstein DeMasi | June 2021
The Federal Theater, Where Art Went Live
Sheila D Collins & Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg | April 2021
Powerful Music. Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Authority
Jonathon Shipley | Jan 2021
The Case for New Deal Art
Richard A Walker | Dec 2020
Evictions Revisited
Gray Brechin | August 2020
Gordon Parks, “Showing America to Itself”
Jonathan Shipley | July 2020
UCSF Development Puts Murals at Risk
Adam Gottstein | July 2020
A Better United States, c. 1937
Marta Gutman | Dec 2019
Past Is Prologue: Oregon Murals Provide a “Teachable Moment”
Judith T. Kenny | Dec 2019
The “Life of Washington” Murals Explained
Robert W. Cherny | Sept 2019
Democratizing Beauty
Gray Brechin | Sept 2019
New Deal Murals Spur Controversy
Gray Brechin | Feb 2019
Women and the Art of Treasure Island
Anne Schnoebelen | Nov 2018
Rivera Masterpiece to SFMOMA for 2020 Retrospective
Will Maynez | March 2018
Anita Brenner: WPA Art Critic and Cultural Bridge-Builder
Harvey Smith | March 2018
Where We Gonna Get It, Dad? Johnny Cash at the Dyess Colony
Susan DeMasi | Dec 2017
A New Deal Muralist’s Work Lives On
Richard Everett | Sept 2017
Paint and Politics—the Life and Work of Victor Arnautoff
Robert Cherny | June 2017
Art Review: American Painting of the 1930s
Richard A Walker | April 2017
Jo Mora, Renaissance Man of the West
Peter Hiller | Sept 2016
Richmond’s Lost Mural Rediscovered After 40 Years
Melinda McCrary | Sept 2016
So What’s the Deal? Yiddish at the Federal Theater Project
Joel Schechter | April 2016
New Documentary on WPA Artist, Tyrus Wong
Harvey Smith | April 2016
The Lost Artworks of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Kathleen Duxbury | July 2016
The Biggest Post Office Mural in the Biggest Town in the Biggest State
Fran Cappelletti | July 2016
San Francisco Zoo Artworks a Legacy of WPA Women
Richard Rothman | July 2016
Colorado Springs Saves Its New Deal Murals
Barbara Diamond | Dec 2015
The New Deal at the Movies
Gray Brechin | Sept 2015
The New Deal’s Forgotten Art Form
Charles Epting | June 2015
Erasing the United Nations
Gray Brechin | April 2015
Agency Reclaims Imperiled Murals
Barbara Bernstein | Dec 2014
Famed Coit Tower Murals Restored
Susan Ives | June 2014
Indians at the Post Office
Gray Brechin | Jan 2014
Exhibition Celebrates WPA Artist Leon Bibel
Barbara Bernstein | Oct 2013
Conservation, Environment & Leisure
The Lungs of Our Land
Owen A. Kelley | August 2022
Pare Lorenz and the U.S. Film Service Take on America’s Problems
Brent McKee | January 2022
How a New CCC Could Help Meet the Climate Crisis
James Steinbauer | October 2021
A New Deal for Birds
Susan Ives | Dec 2020
History in Bloom
Susan Ives | June 2020
On the Trail of the New Deal in Yosemite National Park
John Broesamle | Dec 2019
Democratizing Beauty
Gray Brechin | Sept 2019
A Bridge into the Forest: The CCC in Ohio’s Shawnee State Forest
Anne Delano | Feb 2019
A Firebreak Runs Through It
Gray Brechin | Nov 2018
Time for a 21st Century CCC
Gray Brechin | March 2018
“CCC in Idaho” Goes Digital
Ivar Nelson | April 2017
Schussing in New England, Courtesy of the CCC
Alex Tarr | Jan 2017
CCC Totem Pole Inventory Needed
Susan Ives | Jan 2017
Florida’s New Deal Landscapes in Jeopardy
David Driapsa | Jan 2017
Preserved Forever: How the CCC Helped Build a Park District
David Zuckerman | Sept 2016
Indiana’s First CCC Museum
Glory-June Greiff | Sept 2016
Centenarian Rupert Lopez Recalls Life in the CCC
Deborah and Jon Lawrence | July 2016
A National Monument to the CCC
Susan Ives | Dec 2015
Discovering New Deal New York
Frank da Cruz | Sept 2015
To Stand for Centuries
Robert Krause | Sept 2015
A New Deal Jewel in New York Awaits Revival
Deborah Wye | Dec 2014
CCC Makes History at Bandelier
Susan Ives | June 2014
Building for the Birds
Susan Ives | Jan 2014
The Moral Equivalent: Redefining the Warrior Spirit
Gray Brechin | Oct 2013
The CCC: Conserving Land and Youth, Again
Gray Brechin | March 2013
Shock Troops of Disaster
Gray Brechin | Nov 2012
Poverty & Social Programs
A New Deal for the Blind
Brent McKee | October 2022
The Lungs of Our Land
Owen A. Kelley | August 2022
Vaccines and Church Bells
by Jonathan Shipley | January 2022
The Crisis of Childcare
Jonathon Shipley | September 2021
Making Ends Meat
Jonathon Shipley | March 2021
Come Home, America
Harvey Smith | Oct 2020
Evictions Revisited
Gray Brechin | August 2020
The Newsboy — Son of the ‘Forgotten Man’
Vincent DiGirolamo | April 2020
West Virginia Homesteads a Legacy of the New Deal
Carol Denney | December 2019
New York City Never Stops Eating
Susan DeMasi | Feb 2019
Clabe Wilson and the WPA
Joy Neal Kidney | Nov 2018
Where We Gonna Get It, Dad? Johnny Cash at the Dyess Colony
Susan DeMasi | Dec 2017
Photographing New Deal Utopias
Jason Reblando | Sept 2017
Greenhills Named a National Historic Landmark
Susan Ives | Jan 2017
Forgetting Decency
Gray Brechin | Dec 2015
Social Security at 80: Still Missing the Keystone
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg | Sept 2015
Fighting to Preserve Chicago’s New Deal Housing
Jason Reblando | June 2014
Elvis Slept Here
Susan Allen | Jan 2014
Hope and Possibility in a Resettlement Town
Rachel Brahinsky | Nov 2012
Infrastructure and Development
A New Deal for Dalhart: Reviving a Rural Texas Town
Bryce Jones | June 2023
Maintaining Civilization
Gray Brechin | July 2021
Revisiting the “Blue Bible”
Gray Brechin | June 2021
A Light Went On: New Deal Rural Electrification Act
Jonathan Shipley | Dec 2020
New Deal Park Structures Face Demolition in NYC
Deborah Wye | August 2020
Just Scratching the Surface
Gray Brechin | August 2020
Democratizing Beauty
Gray Brechin | Sept 2019
A Bridge into the Forest: The CCC in Ohio’s Shawnee State Forest
Anne Delano Steinert | Feb 2019
A Firebreak Runs Through It
Gray Brechin | Nov 2018
Reviving the New Deal’s Lost History in New York City
Margaret W. Crane | June 2018
A New Deal Town Fights for Its Future
Susan Ives | March 2018
Herbert Maier and the Parkitecture of the 1930s
Gray Brechin | Dec 2017
Neglecting Our Infrastructure
Gray Brechin | Sept 2014
“Everything Possible” The New Deal Response to Polio
Gray Brechin | Sept 2014
America’s Infrastructure Gets a D+
Brent McKee | May 2013
A New Deal for Europe
Susan Ives with Gray Brechin | May 2013
Imagine the U.S. Without the New Deal
Gray Brechin | May 2012
Buildings and Memorials
Frances Perkins Center Acquires Perkins’ Homestead
Sarah Peskin | Nov 2020
Democratizing Beauty
Gray Brechin | Sept 2019
Discovering the New Deal at the NYC Municipal Archives and Library
Kenneth Cobb | Sept 2019
Eat at Jo’s
Peter Hiller | May 2019
WPA Model of San Francisco Restored at Last
Gray Brechin | Nov 2018
Women and the Art of Treasure Island
Anne Schnoebelen | Nov 2018
Clabe Wilson and the WPA
Joy Neal Kidney | Nov 2018
Victory for Berkeley’s Historic Post Office
Susan Ives | June 2018
The Women Who Painted Coit Tower
Jon Golinger | Dec 2017
Playing Through: Recreation and the New Deal
Gray Brechin | June 2017
Greenhills Named a National Historic Landmark
Susan Ives | Jan 2017
Goliad’s Custodian’s Cottage: A Living Laboratory
Jennifer Carpenter | Sept 2016
Richmond’s Lost Mural Rediscovered After 40 Years
Melinda McCrary | Sept 2016
The Biggest Post Office Mural in the Biggest Town in the Biggest State
Fran Cappelletti | July 2016
A National Monument to the CCC
Susan Ives | Dec 2015
Dear Postal Service: Don’t Mess With Berkeley
Harvey Smith | June 2015
Nashville Preserves Its Historic Courthouse
Tara Mitchell Mielnik | June 2015
Bronx Post Office Sold to Developer
Susan Ives | Sept 2014
Elvis Slept Here
Susan Allen | Jan 2014
A CCC Jewel Restored on Lake Michigan
Susan Ives | Oct 2013
Plummer Park Landmark Remains at Risk [UPDATE]
Harvey Smith | Jan 2014
FDR Four Freedoms Park Opens At Last
Susan Ives | Nov 2012
Public Art at Risk as Postal Service Downsizes
Gray Brechin | May 2012
Dismantling the Post Office
Gray Brechin | Feb 2012
Race and the New Deal
Black in the Limelight: The New Deal’s Negro Theater Project
Jonathan Shipley | March 2022
The Ghosts Among Us—The WPA Slave Narratives
Jonathan Shipley | Dec 2020
A Near-Forgotten Black World’s Fair, Remembered
Jonathan Shipley | Oct 2020
Gordon Parks, “Showing America to Itself”
Jonathan Shipley | July 2020
Tulsa, American Racism and the New Deal
Milton Jordan | July 2020
Was the New Deal Racist?
Richard A Walker | May 2019
Erasing Art and History
Gray Brechin | Sept 2017
Reprising New Deal Fear
Ira Katznelson | April 2017
“Just the way society was.” Segregation in the CCC
Natalie Heneghan | Dec 2014
New Dealers & Bios
Growing up Roosevelt. A Conversation with Anna Eleanor Seagraves
Kurt Feichtmeir | June 2023
Harry Hopkins, The First and Final Task of Government
June Hopkins | April 2021
Jan Roosevelt Katten, A Remembrance
Susan Ives | Nov 2020
“Be a nuisance where it counts,” The Legacy of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Susan DeMasi | June 2018
Anita Brenner: WPA Art Critic and Cultural Bridge-Builder
Harvey Smith | March 2018
Frances Perkins: The Woman behind the New Deal
Leah W. Sprague | Dec 2017
Paint and Politics—the Life and Work of Victor Arnautoff
Robert W. Cherny | June 2017
Remembering Frank Cassara, the Last of the CCC Artists
Kathleen Duxbury | April 2017
Jo Mora, Renaissance Man of the West
Peter Hiller | Sept 2016
George Grant, Photographer of National Parks
April 2016
Edith Hamlin and Me
April 2016
Centenarian Rupert Lopez Recalls Life in the CCC
Deborah and Jon Lawrence | July 27, 2016
New Deal Activist Kathy Flynn Honored As “Living Treasure”
Susan Ives | July 26, 2016
A “New Deal” Romance
Mixie Kingman Eddy | Dec 15, 2015
Memories of Photographer Rondal Partridge (1917-2015)
Harvey Smith | Sept 10, 2015
Key West Photo Exhibition opens July 17 to Honor Arthur Rothstein
Dr. Ann Segan | June 29, 2015
Memories of Milton Hebald
Harvey Smith | June 29, 2015
Voices of Destiny, The Roosevelts on the Radio
Gray Brechin | Dec 24, 2014
Exhibition Celebrates WPA Artist Leon Bibel
Barbara Bernstein | Oct 24, 2013
Remembering Beth Danysh 1920-2012
Harvey Smith | Nov 9, 2012
Book Review
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950, by Bram Dijkstra
Gray Brechin | September 2019
Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, by Robert W. Cherny
Harvey Smith | June 2017
Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal, by Eric Rauchway
Gray Brechin | 2018
Wisconsin Post Office Mural Guidebook, by David W. Gates, Jr.
Susan Ives | Date
The Public Landscape of the New Deal, by Phoebe Cutler
Gray Brechin
New Deal Utopias, by Jason Reblando
Susan Ives
Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project, by Susan Rubenstein DeMasi
Gray Brechin
City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York, by Mason B. Williams
Gray Brechin
We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America, by Charles Peters
Gabriel Milner, PhD.
Book Review: Tilden Regional Park—Queen of the East Bay Regional Parks, 246pp, 420 photographs, by Richard Langs
Gray Brechin
Book Review: New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943, Farm Security Administration, by Taschen
Susan Ives
Book Review: Rightful Heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America, by Douglas Brinkley
Gray Brechin
Book Review: Landscapes for the People, George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service ,by Ren and Helen Davis
Gray Brechin
Book Review: Kentucky By Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, ed. Andrew Kelly
Gabriel Milner
Book Review: See America, A Celebration of Our National Parks and Treasured Sites,by Chronicle Books
Susan Ives
Book Review: Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, by Diana Linden
Gabriel Milner
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
Susan Ives
Book Review: Texas State Parks and the CCC: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, by Cynthia Brandimarte and Angela Reed
Tara Mitchell Mielnik
Book Review: Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture, by Sharon Musher
Gabriel Milner
Book Review: Nature’s New Deal, by Neil M. Maher
Susan Ives
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal, by Kim Phillips-Fein
Robert Leighninger
Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America’s Parks, Helen and Ren Davis
Gray Brechin
Berkeley and the New Deal, by Harvey Smith
Susan Ives
Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads, by Robert M Carriker
Alex Tarr
When Government Helped: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New Deal, edited by Sheila D. Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Alex Tarr
Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor, by Curtis Roosevelt
Richard A Walker
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times, by Susan Quinn
Susan Ives
The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, by Cass Sunstein
Gray Brechin
Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, by Sean Burns
Harvey Smith
Shovel Ready: Archeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson
Richard A Walker
When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy, by Roger G. Kennedy
Gray Brechin
Movie Review: Hyde Park on Hudson
Harvey Smith
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, by Peter Dreier
Sam Redman
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, by James N Gregory
Sam Redman
Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico, 1933-1945: A Guide to the New Deal Legacy, Kathy Flynn
Susan Ives
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth, by Alexander J. Field
Richard A Walker
Coit Tower San Francisco: Its History and Art, by Masha Zakheim, with photographs by Don Beatty
Susan Ives
Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Response to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present, Art Hazelwood
Sam Redman
Relief, Recreation, Racism: Civilian Conservation Corps Creates South Carolina State Parks, 1933-42, by Robert A. Waller
Gray Brechin
Past Issues by Date
2021
November 2021, Building Back Better—Again
October 2021, A Corps for the Climate
September 2021, Beyond Infrastructure
August 2021, Investing in Prosperity
July 2021, An American Renaissance
May 2021, The First and Final Task
April 2021, A Place of Pilgrimage
2020
December 2020, A Happier New Year
November 2020, Happy Thanksgiving
October 2020, Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom—nor Politics
September 2020, A New Deal for America’s Workers
August 2020, More Than Just Pretty Pictures
July 2020, Brief, but Spectacular
2016 – 2019
Winter 2019, Lessons for a Green New Deal
Fall 2019, The Artist Must be a Critic of Society
Summer 2019, Freedom and Justice for All
Spring 2019, The Untried Ideas of the New Deal
Fall 2018, Rekindling the Spark of the New Deal
Summer 2018, Be a Nuisance Where It Counts
Spring 2018, Keepers of the New Deal Spirit
Winter 2018, Courage, Vision, and Tenacity
Summer 2017, New York City Map of New Deal Sites
Spring 2017, Wooing a Reluctant Congress to the New Deal
Winter 2017, WPA Posters Bridge Then and Now
Fall 2016, Discovery and Tribute for the New Deal Heritage
2012 – 2015
Fall 2015, Express your Inner Paleontologist
Summer 2015, Nashville to Key West
Spring 2015, Remembering My Grandmother, Eleanor Roosevelt. (She was a perilous driver!)
Fall 2014, New Deal in Prime Time
Spring 2014, Fanning the Flame
Summer 2013, Home of the Original New Deal
Spring 2013, What does the New Deal mean today?
Winter 2012, National New Deal Preservation Association
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