New Deal Chronology
This is the complete chronology of key events in the development of FDR's New Deal program included in the back of AMERICAN-MADE.
AMERICAN-MADE Bibliography
Here are all documents, reports, and books utilized by author Nick Taylor for writing AMERICAN-MADE.
General Statistics about the WPA
Existence | Inaugurated May 6, 1935 by Presidential Act; closed by Congress 1943 due to WWII. |
# Of People Employed | 8.5 million; apprx. 15% were women. The National Youth Administration (the NYA a part of the WPA) employed 270,000 young people. |
% Of WPA Spending On Arts | 7% |
% Of WPA Spending On Civic Projects/Infrastructure | 75% |
Estimated Total $ Spent | $12 billion dollars |
Airports | 800 airports and more than 700 miles of runways |
Bridges | 78,000 built |
Buildings | 125,000 built |
Roadways | 650,000 miles built |
The School Hot Lunch Program | 1 million children served 1 hot meal a day in school nationally—the program also employed some 12,000 adults via WPA grants. This program supplemented or was supplemented by local and state programs, many in existence since the early 1900s. Author Nick Taylor estimates 900 million meals were supplied. |
Disaster Relief | Although no monument or building or park stands to commemorate this, the WPA was the first responding agency when natural disaster devastated American lives. The 1937 Ohio River Flood was one such effort; there were heroic efforts made following the New England hurricane of 1938. |
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/folklife
FDR Library
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
Federal Theatre Project
memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
Living New Deal Project
livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu
Murals at Ellis Island
www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM001-ELLISISLAND.htm
National New Deal Preservation Association
www.newdeallegacy.org
The New Deal Information Service
www.fdrheritage.org
New Deal Network
www.newdeal.feri.org
The New Deal 75 Year Celebration
www.newdeal75.org
StoryCorps
www.StoryCorps.net
Timberline Lodge
www.timberlinelodge.com
The WPA Federal Art project
www.wpamurals.com
Bantam Trade Paperback
Includes 32 pages of photographs
February 2009 | $15.00
978-0-553-38132-0 (0-553-38132-6)