This is the grave of Archibald MacLeish. Born in Illinois, MacLeish grew up rich, went to Harvard, served in World War I, and went to law school. But his career took a sharp left turn in the 1920s, when he decided to commit himself to...
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This is the grave of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. There's no real need to explain the career of the nation's 2nd greatest president and his remarkable wife. Two.
On March 4, 1933, the newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. This first female cabinet member in American history (the second wouldn't come.
Sabeel Rahman has a piece in the The Nation that reviews some of the journal's classic essays from the Progressive Era as a way for us to learn about that period today as we deal with the New Gilded Age. Do the Progressives offer a...
On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority as a centerpiece to his New Deal. The TVA would have both short and long-term impacts on.
Cheyenne women with mattresses they made, Federal Emergency Relief Administration project, 1940 I was a bit skeptical about reviewing Jason Scott Smith's new overview of the New Deal because it.
Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff. I love the films of the New Deal. There are also useful stories here. Robert...
Kevin Kruse excerpts his new book on how corporations created the public symbols of modern Christianity as part of their mobilization against the New Deal. It's a must read, as.
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
Jimmy Durante promoting the National Recovery Administration. I am consistently amazed at FDR's propaganda network. I can only imagine what conservatives would say if Obama tried something like this. ....From Michael Hiltzik's book on the New Deal: Ickes groused about having been forced at a...
On October 19, 1935, the American Federation of Labor was holding its convention in Atlantic City. While usually a staid affair, this convention was rocked by a fight on stage.
Between 1935 and 1945, photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration documented the nation and its people as it suffered through and emerged from the Great Depression. 170,000 images remain..