Roosevelt surmised that he would be unable to take advantage of his landslide to sponsor new measures, such as a wagesand- hours law, because that legislation, too, would be invalidated. In the days ...

Prologue -- "An honest, fearless, square man" -- "Rising star" -- "Common sense idealism" -- Searching for the next Jefferson -- "An emergency more serious than war ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Ninety years ago on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The SSA was part of Roosevelt’s economic agenda and a key ...

To forge a new social contract is one thing. To explain it to people is another. The bureaucrats of the New Deal understood that very well. They also knew that art and architecture could be powerful ...

WPA mural from the Cohen Building (formerly housing the Social Security Board Building) in Washington, D.C., 1942. Seymour Fogel's murals were painted to express the meaning of Social Security. The ...