I. The New Deal as Policy

Relief ("The First New Deal")
Reform ("The Second New Deal")

II. The Great Depression as a Cultural Renaissance

Art; Music; Theater; Radio; Film

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); fireside chats; the First Hundred Days; the Second Hundred Days; National Bank Holiday; "alphabet soup" agencies; FDR's "Brains Trust"; The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936, Pere Lorenz); AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act); CCC (Civilian Conservation Act); TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority); NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act); Section 7A (of the NIRA); NRA (National Recovery Administration); WPA (Works Progress Administration); National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act); Social Security Act; Roosevelt Recession (1937); John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and "Keynesian economics"; corporate state; WPA's Federal Project Number One ("Federal One"); Federal Art Project; Federal Music Project; Federal Theater Project; Federal Writers Project; Historical Records Survey; Harry Hopkins; Hallie Flanagan; Section art, abstract modernism, social realism; American Scene painting; Fine Arts section of the Treasury Department; Marc Blitzstein; Project 891; The Cradle Will Rock; Martin Dies (1900-1972); House Un-American Activities Committee.