WPA-built retaining wall, Richwood Avenue, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo by a Living New Deal team member, 2026.
WPA-built retaining wall, Richwood Avenue, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo by a Living New Deal team member, 2026.
WPA-built retaining wall, Richwood Avenue, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo by a Living New Deal team member, 2026.
WPA-built retaining wall, Richwood Avenue, Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo by a Living New Deal team member, 2026.
This retaining wall was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by WPA workers in 1936 and holds up Richwood Avenue in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Across the U.S., the WPA built 1,820 miles of new retaining walls and revetments.
#history #infrastructure #labor
02.03.2026 21:08
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This is "Winter in the Catskill Mountains," an oil painting by John W. Bentley (1880-1951), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934.
#art #history #winter #painting
16.02.2026 23:04
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New Deal Accomplishment: Over 10,000 new garages, warehouses, hangars, and other storage buildings - to protect our food and goods, tools and tractors, autos and airplanes
Above: "Warehouses," an oil painting by Haldane Douglas (1893-1980), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 19...
The New Deal built over 10,000 new garages, warehouses, hangars, and other storage buildings - to protect our food and goods, tools and tractors, autos and airplanes.
#history #buildings
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15.01.2026 19:17
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New Deal Accomplishment: 23,000 public forums for civic education and democracy
Above: A booklet and guide for public forums - Bulletin 1935, No. 17 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936). The New Deal...
The New Deal put together 23,000 public forums for civic education. The idea was that Americans needed to come together, listen to subject matter experts, & work with each other in a democratic fashion to solve problems.
#history #democracy
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10.01.2026 23:01
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We need a New Deal for the working-class: More progressive taxation on the super-wealthy; more investment in the common good and public works; another CCC; a job guarantee (which almost made it into the original Social Security legislation); expansion of Social Security; and more.
05.01.2026 23:17
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Indeed!
05.01.2026 23:14
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The New Deal strengthened unions through the Wagner Act; but of course, the real credit goes to the workers willing to fight for better wages, benefits, and workplace conditions.
05.01.2026 23:13
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The New Deal created 110,000+ jobs for American Indians & Native Alaskans, through the CWA, PWA, WPA, & especially the CCC. Through these agencies a breathtaking array of public works were carried out on native lands.
#indians #history #alaska
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05.01.2026 23:08
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Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
Our petition to save the Cohen Bldg (the original HQ of Social Security) and its New Deal art--both of which highlight a government that is supposed to be of, by, and for the people--is now over 5,000 signatures.
Consider signing or sharing, if you haven't already.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
20.12.2025 18:20
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WPA workers building a road in Baltimore, Maryland, 1936. Photo from the University of Maryland College Park Archives.
The New Deal performed over 1.5 million miles of roadwork. That's enough roadwork to go around the earth 60 times.
Much of the work consisted of farm-to-market roads & secondary roads in rural areas.
#roads #infrastructure #history #labor
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11.12.2025 22:03
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New Deal Accomplishment: 10 million Americans received affordable electricity through TVA in 2025
Above: Construction work at the Douglas Dam, part of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) , Sevier County, Tennessee, 1942. TVA was created...
10 million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, & Virginia receive electricity--at lower cost than investor-owned utilities--via the New Deal's TVA.
#history #electricity #TVA #Tennessee #rural #farming
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09.12.2025 20:09
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A painting by Mary Winslow, WPA, 1936. Image from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
A farm scene oil painting, by Mary Winslow, created while she was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1936. Image from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
#art #artists #painting #farming #history #landscape
06.12.2025 18:11
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New Deal Accomplishment: 4 million jobs for women
Above: Historian Bonnie Fox Schwartz notes that 300,000 women were employed in the New Deal's Civil Works Administration (CWA) by the sprin...
The New Deal provided direct employment, or provided the funds for direct employment, for about 4 million women, including work-relief jobs, regular federal employment, and high-level administrative posts.
#women #history #jobs #labor
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29.11.2025 19:17
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FDR warned us that government by organized money was just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
21.11.2025 21:48
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Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
If you'd like to see the old Social Security Bldg (now the "Wilbur J. Cohen Bldg") in D.C. preserved, consider signing our petition.
The building houses New Deal art and is also a symbol of a gov't that is of, by, and for the people.
#preservation #history #art
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20.11.2025 23:00
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Proud that I've had dozens of students submit projects that have been published by @livingnewdeal.bsky.social. It's such a great teaching tool and community resource.
08.11.2025 00:37
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Sculpture of deer and fawn. Photo from the National Archives.
The New Deal created 18,815 sculptures for the American public, such as this one made for the University of Oregon, by Louise Pritchard, in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1937.
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#history #art #artists #sculptures
30.10.2025 16:44
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Two original stamps, from the New Deal's Food Stamp Plan, 1939.
The New Deal assisted 20 million people through its Food Stamp Plan, 1939-1943. It was the original such program, and provided the foundation for what we now know as the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" (SNAP).
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#food #SNAP #history
27.10.2025 16:52
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Student in a WPA literacy class, 1938. Photo from the National Archives.
The New Deal helped reduce illiteracy with WPA classes in reading and writing.
#history #education #literacy #teaching
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25.10.2025 18:02
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New Deal-built high school in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo from: C.W. Short and R. Stanley-Brown, Public Buildings: A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies Between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939).
The New Deal had more than 102,000 projects to construct or improve educational buildings --> schools, colleges, libraries, dorms, vocational facilities, etc.
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#education #schools #colleges #learning
20.10.2025 21:30
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A WPA school lunch in Tennessee. Photo from the National Archives.
The New Deal served over 1.2 billion free or low-cost school lunches, and improved food-handling methods and standards along the way.
#history #food #schools #lunch #children
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15.10.2025 18:47
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