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By Richard Walker
 FDR and the New Dealers were idealists, but their genius lay in a hard-nosed pragmatism and a willingness to experiment. The Green New Deal is still mostly a set of potential policies and hoped-for outcomes. To succeed, it needs to take seriously ten lessons from the first New Deal. Read more
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By Carol Denney
 Between 1933 and 1935 the federal Division of Subsistence Homesteads (DSH) gave people displaced by the Great Depression the chance to build a new life. In the Tygart Valley, the program left a legacy of affordable and sustainable housing and community-serving buildings constructed by the residents themselves.
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By John Broesamle
 When I was a year-and-a-half old, and for years thereafter, I would spend all summer with my parents in Tuolumne Meadows in the upper reaches of Yosemite National Park. I didn’t know until four decades later that not far from our campground, hidden among the trees, was a mess hall where young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps relaxed and refueled between shifts on New Deal projects that made the park’s High Country hospitable to families such as ours.
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By Marta Gutman
 A short-lived federal agency, the U.S. Film Service, hired “Hollywood” to make newsreels to show how workers formerly on relief were building a better United States. The 47 WPA films remind us of the power of moving images to craft political narratives. Read more
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By Judith T. Kenny
 New Deal-era murals have stirred protests for their representations of gender and race. The administration at the Knight Library at the University of Oregon chose conversation over censorship. Read more
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