FPC Publications and Authors

Frances Perkins Center Publications

A Promise to All Generations, FPC 2011, republished 2018

Women and the Spirit of the New Deal, FPC, Living New Deal, and National New Deal Preservation Alliance publication, 2019

Frances Perkins Center Authors
Publications authored by Perkins Center board members, former summer interns, and fellows

“Boomers and Millennials Unite” by Ann Beaudry, 2019

“No Refuge” by Rebecca Brenner Graham, former FPC intern, 2019




“Can We Thank Frances Perkins for the New Deal Arts Programs?” by Sarah Peskin, 2016

Mural: Valley Farms, Ross Dickinson, Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor.

“The Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle/Damariscotta, Maine” by Christopher N. Breiseth, May 2014

“Frances Perkins: The Saint Behind the New Deal” by Charles Hoffacker, May 2014

“Frances Perkins – Private Faith, Public Policy” by Michelle Kew, 2013

“From the Triangle Fire to the New Deal” a speech given by Christopher Breiseth, 2011

 The Kiln in the Garden: Damariscotta River Brick Making and the Traces of Maine’s Agro-Industrial Past by Jørgen G. Cleemann, FPC Research Fellow, 2011
  
Historic Preservation Thesis, Columbia University, 2012. 

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey, 2009.

“The Frances Perkins I Knew” by Christopher N. Breiseth, 1966