Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program employed more ...

May 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1863, Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee routed Union troops under Gen. Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. In 1915, ...

Drawn from the Art Museum’s permanent collection, Places and Spaces features artwork by American artists produced under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the signature relief programs of ...

Between 1933 and 1945, government patronage of the arts was the focus of a number of programs established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of his New Deal. Under the Department of the ...

The Works Progress Administration provided jobs to 8.5 million Americans between 1935 and 1943 during the Great Depression and the first years of World War II. Jobs ranged from graveling city streets ...

This collection contains 40 black and white photographs ranging in size form 5x7 inches to 8x10 inches. In addition to public works projects on reservations, the Works Progress Administration funded ...

In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage. By Laura ...

On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration. Created by President Franklin Roosevelt to ...