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.
History: Archives and Context
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.