The Obama team thought a lot about the New Deal while they were putting the stimulus together, but times have changed since the New Deal. The Hoover Dam put 5,000 Americans to work with shovels.

The New Deal. A Modern History. Michael Hiltzik. Free Press: 499 pp., $30. Michael Hiltzik’s “Colossus,” published last year, told the story of the building of what is now known as the ...

Sometimes, books create paradigm shifts in how we view history. "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," by Amity Shlaes, is just such a book.

Willkie tried to make peace with the TVA, but the New Deal’s aim, he came to believe, was to replace private power. Today, private and public power live side by side. In the 1930s, it was war.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Rural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has totem parks — the New Deal. In order to help the nation recover from The Great Depression ...

Margaret Talbot reviews Scott Borchert’s new book, “Republic of Detours,” about the Federal Writers’ Project, part of the New Deal in the nineteen-thirties, during the Depression, and ...