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$500,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant to Frances Perkins Center
September 9, 2020 (Newcastle, Maine) The Frances Perkins Center has received a prestigious $500,000 matching grant from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures grant program to preserve and restore the Frances Perkins Homestead National
Social Security Celebrates 85th Anniversary
August 14, 2020: Happy 85th Birthday Social Security! Crown Jewel of the New Deal Read More “The process of recovery is not a simple one. We cannot be satisfied merely with makeshift arrangements which will
JSTOR Daily on Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins: Architect of the New Deal She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten. Frances Perkins: Architect of the New Deal
Prints, Drawings, and Photos Picturing the Great Depression
“A Dust Bowl of Dog Soup: Picturing the Great Depression” Virtual Exhibition. Smith College Museum of Art presents prints, drawings, and photos created by the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Farm Security Administration
Revive Civilian Conservation Corps?
From The New York Times: 7.7 Million Young People Are Unemployed. We Need a New ‘Tree Army.’ The Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps helped build America at a time of national crisis. Let’s do it again.
A More Gracious Society
CONVERSION TO THE WORLD A sermon by the Rev. Charles Hoffacker John 4:5-42 The woman who encounters Jesus at the well ends up converted. She sees everything differently than she did before. Moreover, she contributes