Legacies of the New Deal

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Articles

Abolish OilWhat must be abolished so that democracy may finally rise? Oil — as an industry and as a form of social organization.

New Deal Utopias: Photos of the Greenbelt TownsA photo essay on the Greenbelt Towns created by FDR’s New Deal — an earlier era’s response to tough times and fair housing.

The Public WorksWhy isn’t the Great Recession inspiring a new New Deal? Places’ editor argues that we no longer believe in public-sector solutions — or even in the public itself.

THE GREEN NEW DEAL, LANDSCAPE, AND PUBLIC IMAGINATIONAs part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. BY NICHOL…

Building a "Green New Deal": Lessons from the
Original New Deal

Matt Huber, Verso Books Blog, 2018

Websites

The New Deal Map

https://www.deepmoire.com/

Books

Really and Truly a Partnership: The New Deal’s Associational State and the Making of Postwar American Politics

Brent Cebul and Mason Williams,
University of Chicago Press, 2018

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein,
Economic Policy Institute, 2017

Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Irene Chang, Charles Davis, and Mabel Wilson, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020

The Public Landscape
of the New Deal

Phoebe Cutler, Yale University Press, 1986

Journal Articles

Georgia Power, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Creation of a Rural Consumer Economy, 1934-55

Brent Cebul, Journal of American History, 2018

The Long New Deal

Raj Patel and Jim Goodman, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2020

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