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October 1, 2024 at 4:01 PM

The Fireside: Art for the People

The Fireside: Art for the People   View this email in your browser   OCTOBER 2024 Art for the People Artists aren’t usually the first to benefit from government jobs programs but Harry Hopkins, director of New Deal re…
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September 10, 2024 at 9:29 PM

Join Us: "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper”

Join Us: "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper” View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Thursday, September 12, 2024, 5pm PD…
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September 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Join Us: "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper”

Join Us: "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper” View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Thursday, September 12, 2024, 5pm PD…
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September 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM

The Fireside: A New Deal for Labor

The Fireside: A New Deal for Labor   View this email in your browser   SEPTEMBER 2024 A New Deal for Labor American workers made tremendous gains in the 1930s. Thanks to a surge in collective action and union organizi…
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August 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM

The Fireside: To Provide for the General Welfare

The Fireside: To Provide for the General Welfare   View this email in your browser   AUGUST 2024 To Provide for the General Welfare —Social Security Act of 1935      This month marks the 89th anniversary of the Social…
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July 18, 2024 at 4:00 PM

July's New Deal Lowdown

July's New Deal Lowdown View this email in your browser JULY 2024 The Living New Deal got off to a running start this year, with new projects, new grants, a merger and an assortment of talks, tours and online events. Re…
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July 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us: "Hidden Stories of the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project"

Join Us: "Hidden Stories of the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project" View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 5-6pm PDT   "Hidden Stories of the New De…
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June 29, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us: "Hidden Stories of the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project"

Join Us: "Hidden Stories of the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project" View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, July 16, 2024, 5-6pm PDT   "Hidden Stories of the New De…
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June 21, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us: A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom

Join Us: A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom View this email in your browser JOIN US A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom   Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 6 pm EDT   “The Best of Brawls: FDR, La Gua…
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June 8, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us: "Whose Stories? Exploring the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project"

Join Us: "Whose Stories? Exploring the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project" View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 5-6pm PDT   "Whose Stories? Explor…
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June 7, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us: A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom

Join Us: A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom View this email in your browser JOIN US A Living New Deal, New York City Chapter Webinar Via Zoom   Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 6 pm EDT   “The Best of Brawls: FDR, La Gua…
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June 3, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Join Us In-Person: "A Chance to Harmonize"

Join Us In-Person: "A Chance to Harmonize" View this email in your browser JOIN US IN-PERSON Thursday, June 6, 6:30-8pm PDT North Berkeley Public Library   "A Chance to Harmonize” A conversation with Sheryl Kaskowitz, Alexis H…
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June 1, 2024 at 1:14 PM

Join Us: "Whose Stories? Exploring the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project"

Join Us: "Whose Stories? Exploring the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project" View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 5-6pm PDT   "Whose Stories? Explor…
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May 26, 2024 at 1:14 PM

Join Us In-Person: "A Chance to Harmonize"

Join Us In-Person: "A Chance to Harmonize" View this email in your browser JOIN US IN-PERSON Thursday, June 6, 6:30-8pm PDT North Berkeley Public Library   "A Chance to Harmonize” A conversation with Sheryl Kaskowitz, Alexis H…
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May 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM

Join Us for Upcoming Events

Join Us for Upcoming Events View this email in your browser JOIN US FOR UPCOMING EVENTS Thursday, May 23, 2014, 6pm EDT In person at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and Zoom "The New York Game: Base…
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May 1, 2024 at 7:08 PM

The Fireside: Writing America's Story

The Fireside: Writing America's Story   View this email in your browser   MAY 2024 Writing America’s Story Creating thousands of jobs for unemployed creatives, the Federal Writers’ Project (1935-1943) proved a launchpa…
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April 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Join Us: "Ranger of the Lost Art"

Join Us: "Ranger of the Lost Art" View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 5pm-6pm PDT   “Ranger of the Lost Art”   While a seasonal ranger at Grand Teto…
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April 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Fireside: America’s Voices

The Fireside: America’s Voices   View this email in your browser   APRIL 2024 America’s Voices Within the Resettlement Administration, the New Deal agency charged with relocating struggling families, a little known Mu…
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March 26, 2024 at 9:20 PM

Join Us: "Folk Music and the New Deal: Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression”

Join Us: "Folk Music and the New Deal: Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression” View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 5pm-6pm Pacifi…
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March 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM

Join Us: "Folk Music and the New Deal: Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression”

Join Us: "Folk Music and the New Deal: Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression” View this email in your browser JOIN US VIA ZOOM THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2024 Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 5pm-6pm Pacifi…
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February 26, 2024 at 9:45 PM

Join Us: "A New Deal for Quilts"

Join Us: "A New Deal for Quilts" View this email in your browser Join the Living New Deal Webinar Thursday, February 29, 2024, 5pm-6pm PT   “A New Deal for Quilts” with Janneken Smucker     “Whether in our collective romant…
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February 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM

Join Us: The Living New Deal Webinars 2024

Join Us: The Living New Deal Webinars 2024 View this email in your browser Join Us Living New Deal Webinars 2024   Thursday, February 29, 2024. 5pm-6pm PT “A New Deal for Quilts” with Janneken Smucker   “Whether in our collect…
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February 1, 2024 at 2:57 PM

The Fireside: Art for the People

The Fireside: Art for the People   View this email in your browser   FEBRUARY 2024 Art for the People Perhaps best known for its public works projects, the WPA also employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians, w…
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January 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM

The Fireside: The Kids Are All Right?

The Fireside: The Kids Are All Right?   View this email in your browser   JANUARY 2024 The Kids Are All Right? Between 1933 and 1934, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) opened nearly 3,000 Emergency Nursery Schoo…
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December 27, 2023 at 2:00 PM

A BANNER YEAR!

A BANNER YEAR! View this email in your browser A BANNER YEAR! The New Deal's 90th anniversary (1933-1942) gave us reason to celebrate. We raised our glasses—and our visibility—at a number of events he…
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December 16, 2023 at 2:00 PM

SHARE THE NEW DEAL SPIRIT

SHARE THE NEW DEAL SPIRIT View this email in your browser SHARE THE NEW DEAL SPIRIT A lasting legacy of the New Deal is toy lending libraries, a project of the federal Works Progress Administration…
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December 12, 2023 at 4:43 PM

LND NYC: Please join our webinar "Unions from the Wagner Act to the New Labor Movement"

LND NYC: Please join our webinar "Unions from the Wagner Act to the New Labor Movement" View this email in your browser "Unions from the Wagner Act to the New Labor Movement" Living New Deal's NYC Chapt…
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December 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM

CELEBRATE THE NEW DEAL

CELEBRATE THE NEW DEAL View this email in your browser CELEBRATE THE NEW DEAL With a Year-End Gift Over the past 10 years, the Living New Deal has been building the first-ever interactive map and …
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December 5, 2023 at 5:13 PM

December's New Deal Lowdown

December's New Deal Lowdown View this email in your browser DECEMBER 2023 A NEW LOOK FOR LIVINGNEWDEAL.ORG     The livingnewdeal.org website has been transformed, the culmination of two years of planning, design, progra…
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November 15, 2023 at 10:13 PM

"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for Women"

"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for Women" View this email in your browser You’re invited Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and The Living Ne…
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November 15, 2023 at 10:04 PM

"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for Women"

"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins Embrace Politics and Power for Women" View this email in your browser You’re invited Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and The Living Ne…
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November 1, 2023 at 1:15 PM

The Fireside: Reviving the Corps

The Fireside: Reviving the Corps   View this email in your browser   NOVEMBER 2023 Reviving the Corps When FDR first took office in 1933, nearly a quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. In one of his first …
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October 8, 2023 at 4:37 PM

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE!

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE! View this email in your browser   HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE!   With special guest Dr. Heather Cox Richardson Saturday, November 11, 2023, San Francisco, California   …
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September 28, 2023 at 6:09 PM

Living In The Future

Living In The Future View this email in your browser Join the Living New Deal Online   LIVING IN THE FUTURE Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 5pm PST   Join us for a discussion of interracial experiments and activism that influenc…
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September 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE!

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE! View this email in your browser   HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN—LET’S CELEBRATE!   With special guest Dr. Heather Cox Richardson Saturday, November 11, 2023, San Francisco, California   …
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September 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM

A WALK IN THE REDWOODS

A WALK IN THE REDWOODS View this email in your browser Join the Living New Deal and the National Park Service    A WALK IN THE REDWOODS Sunday, October 22, 2023, 4pm-6pm PST Muir Woods, Mill Valley, California Join us for…
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September 1, 2023 at 12:00 PM

The Fireside: Capturing the Past

The Fireside: Capturing the Past   View this email in your browser   SEPTEMBER 2023 Capturing the Past On June 19, 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation establishing a “National Archives of the United …
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July 31, 2023 at 1:00 PM

The Fireside: Rewriting America

The Fireside: Rewriting America   View this email in your browser   AUGUST 2023 Rewriting America The New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), begun in 1935, employed more than 10,000 out-of work writers, editors, a…
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June 27, 2023 at 5:50 PM

LND NYC: Please join our Social Security webinar this Thursday!

LND NYC: Please join our Social Security webinar this Thursday! A Lasting New Deal Project Social Security Webinar: View this email in your browser Social Security: Demographics, Economics, Politics &am…
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June 1, 2023 at 1:14 PM

The Fireside: When the Dust Settled

The Fireside: When the Dust Settled   View this email in your browser   JUNE 2023 When the Dust Settled On April 14, 1935, known as “Black Sunday,” a dark cloud roiled the Great Plains. The dust storm carried 300 milli…
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May 11, 2023 at 4:14 AM

HONOR THY MOTHER

HONOR THY MOTHER View this email in your browser HONOR THY MOTHER This year marks the 90th anniversary of the New Deal. Between 1933 and 1942 the New Dealers transformed America, creating jobs and …
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May 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM

MOTHERS OF THE NEW DEAL

MOTHERS OF THE NEW DEAL View this email in your browser MOTHERS OF THE NEW DEAL This year marks the 90th anniversary of the New Deal. Between 1933 and 1942 the New Dealers transformed America, crea…
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April 29, 2023 at 1:15 PM

The Fireside: Winning Back a Lost Generation

The Fireside: Winning Back a Lost Generation   View this email in your browser   MAY 2023 Winning Back a Lost Generation As the Great Depression deepened and families fell into poverty, many young people left home to f…
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April 1, 2023 at 1:14 AM

April's New Deal Lowdown

April's New Deal Lowdown View this email in your browser APRIL 2023 MILLIONS OF VIEWS!     The Living New Deal is attracting more eyes than ever. In November we were featured on the PBS Newshour, which boosted our websi…
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February 26, 2023 at 2:14 AM

The Fireside: FEAR ITSELF

The Fireside: FEAR ITSELF   View this email in your browser   MARCH 2023 FEAR ITSELF On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States. He had won in a landslide over t…
  Living New Deal: New York Chapter · [email protected]
February 16, 2023 at 11:34 PM

Webinar: Transforming the Nation’s Food System:Lessons from the New Deal and Strategies for Today

Webinar: Transforming the Nation’s Food System:Lessons from the New Deal and Strategies for Today Join the Living New Deal’s NYC Chapter on Thursday March 2nd at 7pm EST for a virtual roundtable discussion. View this email in your browser …
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January 30, 2023 at 7:32 PM

The Fireside: The New Deal Turns 90

The Fireside: The New Deal Turns 90   View this email in your browser   FEBRUARY 2023 The New Deal Turns 90 The nation was spiraling into the worst economic crisis in its history when presidential candidate Franklin R…
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December 17, 2022 at 1:59 PM

A New Deal Legacy

A New Deal Legacy View this email in your browser A New Deal Legacy The Living New Deal is creating the first-ever interactive map and archive of all the New Deal built. So far, we’ve documented mo…
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December 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM

The Unquenchable Spirit

The Unquenchable Spirit View this email in your browser The Unquenchable Spirit "...there is a special spirit that has warmed our hearts since our earliest childhood— a spirit that brings us close to…
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December 7, 2022 at 2:00 PM

Voices of the People | December 7, 1941

Voices of the People | December 7, 1941 View this email in your browser VOICES OF THE PEOPLE December 7, 1941 From 1937 to 1942, Alan Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the …