This work examines the Arthurdale School, which was created during the Great Depression and dedicated to the purpose of building community and preparing student

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social plan

How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like eco

In August 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt visited the impoverished coal communities of north central West Virginia. Suffering from the effects of the Great Depression,

What is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long pro