From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.

When President Franklin Roosevelt formed the National Youth Administration (NYA) in June 1935, he declared that it would address "the most pressing and immediat

Jo Ann Argersinger's innovative analysis of the New Deal years in Baltimore establishes the significance of citizen participation and community organization in

When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way

ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America so desperately needed from the