"Spending to Save: Fighting the last
Great Depression With Public Works"
Dr. Gray Brechin
Founder and Project Scholar of
California's Living New Deal Project.
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Links supporting Gray Brechin's Presentation
• http://graybrechin.net/ Speaker, Gray Brechin's, website - Links to
full-text articles, books, and appearances.
• http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu Website of California's living New Deal Project provides internet-based resources for New Deal information, studies, and discussions. The "News and Links" section provides links to articles and websites on the New Deal. It also contains a searchable online database and digital map that enables website visitors to discover what the New Deal did for their communities and serves as an electronic guidebook to New Deal sites throughout California. The digital map shows spatially the extent and variety of New Deal sites and will grow as sites are identified.
• http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org Website of the "California Historical Society"
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu Website of University of California's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. This institute hosts the California Living New Project website.
• http://newdeal.feri.org/ Website of the New Deal Network. An extensive archive of New Deal articles, primary sources, and lesson plans.
• http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/educat33.html
Website of the Franklin D. Roosevelt library and Museum. The site focuses on providing educational resources for teachers and students.
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
• http://memory.loc.gov/fsowhome.html
America from the Great Depression to WWII: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1935-1945 black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection, a landmark in the history of documentary photography. From their site, "The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and migrated West or to industrial cities in search of work."
• http://newdeallegacy.org National New Deal Preservation Association has information on the WPA and CCC with links to related visuals.
•http://www.newdealartregistry.org/AboutTheRegistry.html New Deal Art Registry has a complete list of murals, sculptures, frescoes and mosaics that still exist in public bUildings, categorized by state and then by cities.