On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration ... The WPA employed skilled and unskilled ...

It is time to get creative. Within the next few months, the first-ever Crawford County Fair Photography Contest highlighting buildings of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed off on the WPA helping to build the structures where the story of Jesus would be ...

Boone County Sheriff Tony Harris wants to rename the new Boone County Justice Center. He will ask Boone County Commissioners on Monday to name it the Ern K. Hudson Justice Center, in honor of former ...

My book club read John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” for our last meeting. You need to know two things before you think that line sounds pretentious. First, most of the time when we gather, we talk about ...

Despite a third straight day of market losses and warnings from economists, Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin say Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are worth the short-term pain. They’re betting on ...

The Historical Society is proud to celebrate the reopening of Veterans Memorial Hall with a ribbon cutting at 6:30 pm on ...

The unincorporated community of Snowball in Searcy County is typical of the many Arkansas towns established in the Ozark ...

To employ those impacted by the Great Depression and bolster the economy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935. The wide-ranging effort enlisted ...

The Artists of the WPA. The multi-departmental sale will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, books and related ephemera by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress ...

Featuring 160-plus paintings, prints, sculptures, and more, the downtown OKC museum's "From the Vault" exhibit is on view through April 27.

The NYA (National Youth Administration) had permitted college students, such as the future playwright Arthur Miller, to work their way through college. The WPA(Works Progress Administration ...