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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.
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.
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).
New Deal Programs. The New Deal was an amalgam of dozens of programs and agencies created by the Roosevelt Administration and the Congress. Some came into being by law, some by executive order; some are well known, some are not; some changed names or were amended in mid-course; some lasted only a few years, some still exist.
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.
The Living New Deal offers periodic webinars (online lectures and panels) featuring lively discussions of New Deal topics, past and present. The webinars began as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but they turn out to have the added virtue of allowing us to reach a wider national audience through Zoom and Facetime.
May 11, 2021. In every state, volunteers equipped with the Living New Deal’s new mobile app are sending us their New Deal discoveries. Our online New Deal map and database document 17,000 New Deal sites. We believe we’ve just scratched the surface!
Documenting, preserving, and commemorating FDR's New Deal. Discover the New Deal on our interactive map, view photos and read New Deal stories.