The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, by David T. Beito (Independent Institute, 404 pp., $20.48) Taming the Street ...
Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration. But if Trump’s ...
Using 1929 data, the two researchers calculated what wages and prices would have been had without the New Deal, and then compared them to actual wages and prices at the time. Their findings were ...
At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...
Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration. But if Trump’s ...
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Chris O'Sullivan discovered his love of history when he turned to books to find solace during a difficult childhood. The one book that really changed his life, he says, was Howard Zinn's "A People's ...
As reported by ENR at the time, while the Depression deepened in the early 1930s, none of the initiatives taken by President Herbert Hoover or Congress did much to help, and some, such as the ...
As Democratic voters watch the GOP congressional majority abdicate their role as a separate branch of government and national Democrats flail against the onslaught of extremist right-wing policy, they ...
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