Rural Electrification Administration — Bunk History

A woman giving a presentation about electric appliances to an audience of men and women.

Refrigerators and Women’s Empowerment

The “peaceful revolution” of rural electrification.

by Maddie Fowler via National Museum of American History on October 20, 2021

Rural Electrification Administration (REA) erects telephone lines in rural areas.

The Legacy of the Rural Electrification Act and the Promise of Rural Broadband

The history of rural electrification demonstrates why vital public utilities cannot be left to the machinations of the market.

by Christopher Ali via LPE Project on July 12, 2021

FDR with eyes crossed out with red line

Is It Time to Cancel FDR?

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

by Michael Lind via Tablet on April 11, 2021

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

by Louis Hyman via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The Big Business Campaign That Has Shaped 40 Years of GOP Rhetoric

The philosophy that drives the GOP's attacks on government and how it has fueled some of our biggest problems.

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway via Made By History on March 9, 2023

Johnny Cash visiting his childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas.

Down in Dyess

Johnny Cash's life in a collectivist colony during the Great Depression.

by Ben Nadler via Contingent on May 19, 2021

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