The New Deal

A discussion/analysis/examination of FDR'S New Deal and the impact and role it played in the United States of America.

The rise of "big business" during and after the Industrial Revolution challenged the federal government and called for changes in regulation.

An early analysis of the similarities between the social and economic climate following the boom of the 1920s and the 2000s and the subsequent collapse of both.

Four years into the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became President of the United States in 1933, and rapidly began to pull America out of the cold, salty sea of hassles and troubles that it was in.

Roosevelt's New Deal didn't end the Great Depression, critics say. World War II did, so don't buy into Obama's stimulus plan. But what was WWII if not a massive government spending program married to unparalleled protectionism?

The Republican Party has launched an all out crusade against any New Deal redux by attacking the New Deal on two fronts: that it is socialism and that it does not work. But is either charge true?

Despite a few previously idealized policies, Franklin Delano Roosovelt's New Deal was a completely revolutionary policy.

An analysis of FDR's New Deal, in response to recent stimulus proposals by legislators.

The issue: Should the government spend large amounts of money to stimulate the struggling economy, even if it means incurring large budget deficits? Or is it more important to reduce the current deficit and balance the federal budget?

This paper contains a historical look at "the new deal" and its effects on laws, regulation and economic standards.

An analysis on how the African American community progressed during the New Deal Era.

An overview of the 1936 presidential election, in which Democrat Franklin Roosevelt defeated Republican Alfred Landon for a second term.

A brief overview of three articles dealing with race and economics in the New Deal.

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Administration brought about many changes and an example of this was the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Approved May 20th, 1936, the aim of this new administration was to provide loans to electrify rural America.

This article points out the lack of literature on the political history of Texas since the New Deal of the 1930s. Historians have yet to fill in the gaps in our understanding of the political evolution of Texas.

Athletes in Royal Oak were concerned when Lindell Ice Arena was taken over by a management company that prices would be raised and programs cut. They were reassured by promises that the arena's benefits would stay essentially the same.

In these days of Obama's Stimulus debates, many issues have been revisited. It seems to many that the lessons learned under Roosevelt's New Deal are falling on deaf ears. When will Washington ever learn?

learning to ask for and administer help

God hates sin, whether it's conservative sin or liberal sin.

This is an article on the good, the bad, and the ugly of unions.