The New Deal was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the calamity of the Great Depression, and lasting until American entry into the Second World War in 1942. It had four major goals and achievements:

• Economic recovery: The New Deal stabilized the banks, cleaned up the financial mess left over from the 1929 Stock Market crash, and injected a huge amount of federal spending into the economy
• Job Creation: One in four Americans was out of work by 1933, after four years of depression the New Deal created a multitude of agencies to provide jobs for millions of workers and paid wages that saved millions of destitute families
• Investment in Public Works: The New Deal built hundreds of thousands of highways, bridges, hospitals, schools, theaters, libraries, city halls, homes, post offices, airports, and parks across America, most of which are still in use today
• Civic Uplift: The New Deal touched every state, city, and town, improving the lives of ordinary people and reshaping the public sphere, laying the foundation for success in World War II and the prosperity of the postwar era.

The Living New Deal is a research project and online public archive documenting the scope and impact of the New Deal on Americans?? lives and landscape. The New Deal was a constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift America out of the Great Depression, one that touched every state, city, town, and rural area in the country, yet there is no national record of what the New Deal built, only bits and pieces found in local and national archives, published sources, and occasional markers. This represents an enormous gap in the historic record and a collective failure of memory. The Living New Deal's goal is to uncover every New Deal public works site in all fifty states and to build a public archive of photographs, documents, films, and stories from this pivotal period so that legacy of this era o

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II to local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers reveals the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.

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