History
How the Federal Art Project Painted America
Between 1935 and 1943, a New Deal agency put thousands of American artists on the public payroll and quietly rebuilt the country's visual culture from the county courthouse to the city subway.
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History
American history examined through archives, monuments, correspondence and the movements that textbooks compress into a sentence. Each piece explains how a past decision still shapes an argument being had today. Written for readers who want historical detail rather than a moral delivered in advance.
American history written for the present: archives, monuments, forgotten movements and the documents that explain how current arguments were set up.