And still, Leen keeps searching, following the advice of famous Smoky Mountain writer Horace Kephart—himself a seeker—who, ...

Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

Four murals, commissioned as part of the federal government's Public Works of Art Project during the Depression of the 1930s, adorn a wall of the aging Clare Middle School auditorium. By Kelly ...

Federal agents are hunting for historic paintings produced by Americans during the Works Progress Administration, the landmark Great Depression program to support destitute artists. A review by the ...

Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks explores the creation, disappearance, and rediscovery of 14 historic prints created for the National Park Service by the ...

Last spring, Michael Shefcik was watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow,” the PBS series where hopeful owners of mystery art and antiques consult experts on whether it’s treasure or trash. The ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...

As president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted the United States in a massive course of self-betterment. Among the most obvious components of this effort were the infrastructure projects of the ...

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, iconographer, president of New York City’s Art Commission, member of the New York Public Library Board, is as long, as ascetic, as elegantly bearded as an El ...

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