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A long line of young men in coats and hats wait outside canvas tents as one man is fitted for shoes at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in 1935.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt sits at a desk signing the Farm Relief Bill in 1933, surrounded by a group of men in suits including Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace at far right.
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Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Labor - The Department in the New Deal and World War II 1933-1945. Aug 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Historynet - Landslide: FDR, Reelection, and the New Deal. Mar 02, 2026
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The New Deal. Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: American History Central - The New Deal. Dec 10, 2025
Add new Web site: OpenStax - U.S. History - The First New Deal. Oct 27, 2025
Questions and answers added. Jan 13, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository - The New Deal Regulatory Model: A History of Criticisms and Refinements (PDF). Oct 28, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - The New Deal and the Science Advisory Board. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Massachusetts Lowell - The New Deal. May 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College - The New Deal in New York City, 1933�1943. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: OpenStax - U.S. History - The First New Deal. Dec 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - New Deal. Jul 07, 2023
Noted that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was signed in 1933. Mar 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The New Deal. Sep 06, 2022
Add new Web site: The Balance - The New Deal Explained: Programs, Policies, and Success. Mar 13, 2022
Article revised and expanded. Jul 28, 2021
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Corrected display issue. Sep 10, 2020
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Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - New Deal. Jan 21, 2019
Add new Web site: The Living New Deal - The New Deal. Apr 26, 2018
Corrected display issue. Jul 20, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - The New Deal I | The Roosevelts. Feb 14, 2017
Add new Web site: TreasuryDirect KIDS - The New Deal to World War II. Sep 20, 2016
Add new Web site: Official Site of the New Deal Network. Jul 22, 2016
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - New Deal. Jul 22, 2016
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - The New Deal. Jul 22, 2016
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Farmers And The New Deal. Aug 24, 2015
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - New Deal. Dec 28, 2012
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Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Depression and New Deal. Sep 13, 2011
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Depression and New Deal. Sep 13, 2011
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Farmers and The New Deal. Sep 13, 2011
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - New Deal. Nov 10, 2008
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