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David Hilton

New Deal Network - 1 views

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    A large and well-organised collection of good-quality sources on the New Deal, along with teaching resources.
David Hilton

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 - 0 views

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    Another one of the excellent collections provided by the Library of Congress. Gotta love 'em.
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    The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
David Hilton

Periodic Table of the New Deal - 18 views

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    Could be fun for use in classroom activities with students studying the New Deal.
David Hilton

New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration - 4 views

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    A great collection of historical resources on the New Deal.
Mr Maher

Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances - - 0 views

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    This site includes copies of Secretary of the Treasury reports from the 1780s through the present. What was the budget of the United States in 1800s? How much did the "Traiff of Abominations" raise? How much did the Civil War cost? How much did the New Deal cost? - answers to all of these questions cane be found in these reports. Setting students into these for "real" research may find even more.
Deven Black

picturing the thirties - 14 views

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    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
David Korfhage

HOLC maps online - 1 views

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    Clickable online HOLC maps, as well as scans of neighborhood descriptions. Great for exploring discrimination in New Deal policies.
Eric Beckman

T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces - 0 views

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    Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.
Andrew William

Responsible Fiscal Support Even With Low Credit Rating Via Online - 2 views

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    The approach of low credit payday loans has set up new terms and conditions for the financial influenced individuals. Presently, the borrowers don't need to put a great deal of endeavors in getting the store over the span of the crisis in light of the fact that there are times when the negative credit holders are denied of the financial offer assistance. Be that as it may, now, it is not happening on the grounds that with the assistance of previously mentioned advances, the candidates can obtain the store regardless of having downsides.
David Hilton

Documenting America - 0 views

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    Over 160 000 images from 1935 to 1945.
Javier E

Opinion | The Republican Climate Closet - The New York Times - 0 views

  • the 2015 subsidies were part of a much larger, must-pass budget bill. So was the 2018 tax credit for burying emissions. But with Republicans in full control of Congress, you can bet those measures would not have gotten through unless senior people in the party had wanted it to happen.
  • he looked me in the eye.“We know this problem is real,” he said, or words to that effect. “We know we are going to have to do a deal with the Democrats. We are waiting for the fever to cool.”
  • He meant the fever in the Republican base, then in full foaming-at-the-mouth, Tea Party mode. Denial of climate change was an article of faith in the Tea Party, and lots of Republican officeholders who had been willing to discuss the problem and possible solutions just a few years earlier had gone into hiding
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  • The fever never really cooled, of course. It transmuted into the raging xenophobia and nativism that put Donald Trump in the White House
  • What the fellow told me that day still holds true: Lots of Republicans know in their hearts that this problem is real
  • Certainly, some Republicans seem to believe that scientists are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to cook the books on climate change. But they’re not all that crazy. And you can see this in the way that bits and pieces of sensible climate policy keep sneaking through Congress.
  • As long as nobody in those red districts back home is really watching, Republican members of Congress will adopt low-key measures to help cut emissions. They especially like ones that offer additional benefits, like building up the tax base in rural communities, as wind and solar farms do.
  • they tell you the political situation may not be quite as hopeless as it looks. Lurking below the surface of our ugly politics is, I believe, a near consensus to do something big on climate change.
  • Even if Democrats take Congress and the White House in 2020 and push forward an ambitious climate bill in 2021, they are likely to need at least a handful of Republican votes in the Senate
  • We ought to hope for more than that. The policy will be more durable if it passes Congress with substantial bipartisan majorities, as all of our landmark environmental laws did.
  • the Republicans — some of them, at least — are starting to sense political risk in continued climate denial. Their constituents, battered by the fires and torrential rains and the incessant rise of tidal flooding, are knocking on the closet door.
  • Frank Luntz, the pollster who wrote a scurrilous memorandum 17 years ago counseling Republicans to obfuscate the science of climate change, is among those who have come around
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