Scott Borchert is a writer and editor based in New Jersey, and a former assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He holds a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and his work has appeared in Southwest Review, Monthly Review, The Rumpus, PopMatters, Brooklyn Magazine, and other publications.
David Kipen is an author, critic, broadcaster, arts administrator, and full-time UCLA writing faculty member. He is founder of LIbros Schmibros, a nonprofit, bilingual lending library in Boyle Heights. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Alta Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, OZY.com and elsewhere.
“Why the New Deal Matters"
Thursday, September 30, 2021, 5-6:15pm PDT
Eric Rauchway, author of Why the New Deal Matters and historian Lizbeth Cohen examine the New Deal’s lasting imprint on America and on democracy, itself. Free. REGISTER
Eric Rauchway writes about and teaches US history at the University of California, Davis, where he has been a professor since 2001. He has consulted for government and private agencies, including the US Department of Justice and a major Hollywood studio. He holds a PhD from Stanford, an MA from Oxford, and a bachelor's degree from Cornell. He has previously taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Oxford, and he lives with his family in Davis, California.
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor American Studies in the Department of History and a Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1997. From 2011-2018 she was the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.
"Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps: Lessons from the Original CCC"
Thursday, October 21, 5pm PDT
Neil Maher is assistant professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He received his Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2001, and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on U.S. environmental and political history, urban environmental history, and environmental justice.
Call for Submissions --The New Deal Book Award
The Living New Deal its pleased announce the first annual New Deal Book Award. Eligible are non-fiction books about the New Deal era, published 2021. The deadline for nominations is November 15, 2021. The winning author will receive $1,000. An award ceremony will take place at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park, New York, in summer 2022. For more information: [email protected]. Submissions guidelines and nomination form.
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Scott Borchert is a writer and editor based in New Jersey, and a former assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He holds a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and his work has appeared in Southwest Review, Monthly Review, The Rumpus, PopMatters, Brooklyn Magazine, and other publications.
David Kipen is an author, critic, broadcaster, arts administrator, and full-time UCLA writing faculty member. He is founder of LIbros Schmibros, a nonprofit, bilingual lending library in Boyle Heights. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Alta Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, 
Eric Rauchway writes about and teaches US history at the University of California, Davis, where he has been a professor since 2001. He has consulted for government and private agencies, including the US Department of Justice and a major Hollywood studio. He holds a PhD from Stanford, an MA from Oxford, and a bachelor's degree from Cornell. He has previously taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Oxford, and he lives with his family in Davis, California.
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor American Studies in the Department of History and a Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1997. From 2011-2018 she was the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is the author of 
Neil Maher is assistant professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He received his Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2001, and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on U.S. environmental and political history, urban environmental history, and environmental justice. 
