The contributors to this volume explore how historians have judged the nature, effects, and outcomes of the New Deal. Arranged in three sections, the essays discuss Roosevelt s New Deal revolution, explore the groups on the fringes of the New Deal, and consider the legacies of 1930s reform. Chapters focus on specific areas of study, including politics, agriculture, the environment, labor, African Americans, the economy, social programs, the arts, mobilization for World War II, and memory. These fields represent today s emerging interpretations of one of the most significant decades of the twentieth century.

Historical interpretations of the New Deal and the Great Depression / Aaron D. Purcell -- Politics of the 1930s and the New Deal / Michael A. Davis -- Agriculture and the New Deal / Todd Holmes -- The environment and the New Deal / Douglas Sheflin -- The economy and the new deal / Jennifer Egolf -- Social programs and the New Deal / Stuart Patterson -- Art and the New Deal / Sharon Ann Musher -- African Americans and the politics of race during the New Deal / Gloria-Yvonne Williams -- Organized labor, reds, and radicals of the 1930s / Gregory S. Taylor -- Overseas intervention, the rise of fascism abroad, and the origins of World War II / Peter Luddington-Foronjy -- Memory and the New Deal / Michael W. Barberich.