Shout-outs to Living New Deal team members Judith Kenny in Portland, Oregon Barbara Pendleton in Kansas City, Kansas Susan Klein in Fort Worth, Texas Evan Kalish for his sleuthing in Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico and South Carolina and Richard Walker for recent discoveries in Arizona and Oregon. We continue to surpass milestones for the number of New Deal discoveries per state, such as in Oregon (200), Kansas (200), Wyoming (250) and Texas (1,000).
REPUBLIC OF DETOURS MANUAL
Contrary to the misconception that all New Deal relief work was manual labor, this analog computer, built between 1934-35 by the Civil Works Administration and Federal Emergency Relief Administration, was an essential stepping stone to the world’s first digital computer, the ENIAC, built in the same lab a decade later. Even more impressive is site #17,000, the University of Pennsylvania’s Differential Analyzer. The PWA’s program to modernize the railroads was hailed at the time as a revolution in rail transport.
50, the first diesel locomotive built in the United States, which was financed by the Public Works Administration. The additions to the website include #16,999, B&O Railroad Locomotive No. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Īlong the way, we’ve discovered some New Deal achievements we weren’t aware of, such as its contributions to the nation’s technological progress. Their work is the foundation of everything we do. The Living New Deal recently added the 17,000th New Deal site to our website! This achievement is testimony to the diligent, unseen work of our volunteer National Associates and staff researchers. Submissions are invited for the 2022 New Deal Book Award, due by November 14, 2022. Their books were selected from a dozen submissions, including biographies of New Deal artists, a study of race and resistance, and an assessment of the New Deal’s place in American history. The Award Committee called it: “…a beautifully written and timely book, whose ramble through the lives of New Dealers reminds us of what can be accomplished when the federal government supports American artists to create an enduring legacy.”Įric Rauchway, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and chair of the Award Committee, presented Borchert with a plaque and $1,000 prize at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY at the 18th Annual Roosevelt Reading Festival.īorchert was one of three nominees for the New Deal Book Award who participated in the Reading Festival, along with Mary Jane Appel, biographer of Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy (Liveright Books in association with the Library of Congress), and Greg Zipes, author of Justice and Faith: The Frank Murphy Story (University of Michigan Press). Scott Borchert is the winner of the Living New Deal’s first annual New Deal Book Award for his 2021 book about the Federal Writers’ Project, Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
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