Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

In 1915, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit his first major league home run in a game against the New York Yankees ... order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work ...

The Works Progress Administration program, part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambitious New Deal, put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work building parks, government and public buildings ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...