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Living New Deal. Still Working for America. Discover the New Deal legacy of public works, artworks, social programs, conservation, race relations, and more. Explore the New Deal through maps, writings, lectures, videos, films, and social media.
Use this page to generate lists of sites by New Deal agency, by function and by artist (or architect). Click on + to expand group headings.
This map shows New Deal public works and artworks documented by the Living New Deal. Every site is marked by a dot and every dot has an icon showing the function (category) of that site. Zoom in to see the icons and view sites (using +/- buttons in upper right corner).
We are uncovering, documenting and mapping thousands of New Deal public works and artworks around the country. You can search, sort, filter, or eyeball them all, or find what’s around you by using auto-locate!
In less than a decade, the New Deal changed the face of America and laid the foundation for success in World War II and the prosperity of the postwar era – the greatest and fairest epoch in American history. Most of all, the New Deal inspired a civic, cultural, and economic renaissance.
The Living New Deal has its roots in a book project by Dr. Gray Brechin on the WPA in California, but soon outgrew the original intent as the vast extent of New Deal public works projects became clear. In 2005, the project became a team effort to inventory, map, and interpret how the New Deal radically modernized California.
There are summaries of over 60 New Deal laws & programs; a New Deal timeline; sketches of New Dealers; briefs on the New Deal’s economic; essays on the New Deal’s policies for disadvantaged Americans; and photographic essays on working together and the good feelings of participants in the New Deal.
Far from an antiquarian exercise, the Living New Deal aims to help preserve New Deal art and architecture from destruction or privatization, to see that New Deal sites are properly marked, and to help communities and families across the nation rediscover their heritage.
The Living New Deal is run by a core group of staff and volunteers across the country, in the Bay Area, New York, Portland, Boston, Washington DC and West Virginia. They manage our research and website, fundraising and planning, newsletter
News on our recent discoveries, the current state of New Deal projects, and discussions on how a New New Deal would fix our current unemployment crisis.