At the height of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of his New Deal. The purpose was to put America back to work. It ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of people in the United States during a time of great uncertainty. Overland Trail Museum explored how the WPA started and its many ...

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...

The Works Progress Administration was a well-known program instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin Roosevelt to create jobs and put money into local economies.

Long before "stimulus" became a dirty word in some quarters of Washington, the federal government put people to work building things. Lots of things. This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the ...

SAN ANTONIO — In the years before America entered World War II, the country was fighting its way through the Great Depression. President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal had many components to create job ...

The Logan County Historical Society will meet on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 at Christ United Methodist Church, in the Fellowship Hall, at 7:00 p.m. Please park in the west parking lot and enter through the ...

Almanac for New Yorkers, 1939 / compiled by the workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the City of New York ; with illustrations by the WPA Federal Art Project ...