Some CCC Boys Who Went on to Bigger Things
CCC notable alumni Hyman G. Rickover, 4-star Admiral, former Corps Area Commander Raymond Burr, actor, former enrollee Archie Moore, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, former enrollee...
View ArticleThe Legacy of the WPA in Inglewood, California
Inglewood Today has done a nice piece on the legacy of the New Deal in the South Los Angeles community of Inglewood. Read the whole piece here. See the Living New Deal’s record of Inglewood sites.The...
View ArticleMapping New Deal New York and Washington, DC
The Living New Deal is currently engaged in a major effort to expand our coverage of New Deal sites in and around Washington and New York City. Because these are two central places in the national...
View ArticleThe Roosevelts Visit the Kaiser Shipyards During WWII
Thanks to Lincoln Cushing at the Kaiser-Permanente archives, we discovered that FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt both visited the Kaiser shipyards on the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington during the...
View ArticleWhen Louis Kahn and Roosevelt Created a New Jersey Utopia
Author Perdita Buchan has written a lovely encomium to Louis Kahn’s modernist houses set in the New Town of Jersey Homesteads (now Roosevelt) created by the New Deal’s Resettlement Administration....
View ArticleRediscovering Oral Histories of the WPA
Although most widely remembered for its construction and art projects, another of the WPA’s missions was putting unemployed historians and writers back to work. In Orange County, California, this...
View ArticleA Forgotten Arts Competition – For Ships!
Did you hear the one about the New Deal competition to decorate round-the-world passenger-cargo ships? No? You’re not alone. Few people know of this 1940 Section of Fine Arts competition, which...
View ArticleRecovering Government-Funded Abstract Muralism
For almost a year, between midnight and 4 a.m., conservator Gillian Randell, of the restoration firm EverGreene Architectural Art, examined and, with surgical precision, scraped away at the walls of...
View ArticleNotes from the Field: Preserving The WPA’s Imprint
Jay Morris, of Livermore, California, writes: I have lived in Livermore, California, for more than 38 years, 32 of those years on the old South Side of town. This is the original housing area in...
View ArticleThe History of the World in One Mural
It’s well known that there are some WPA murals in Bronx’s DeWitt Clinton High School, notably one called “The History of the World”. But who knew it was a monumental work 194 feet long? One thousand...
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