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Our heartfelt thanks to each organization that has maintained a solid presence for Frances Perkins on the websites listed below...

Recent media mentions of Frances Perkins or the Frances Perkins Center

Article in Ophra Magazine online by Karenna Gore Schiff - Nov 09
Wellesley Centers for Women review of "The Woman Behind the New Deal" by Susan Feiner - Nov 09
Marin Independent Journal "Frances Perkins was proof of old 'great woman' adage" - Sep 09
Lake County Record-Bee "...Bravery and Brains Admired" by Mandy Feder - Sep 09
The Economist reviews "The Woman Behind the New Deal" - Jul 09
MPBN's Maine Watch on the Frances Perkins Center - Jun 09
BusinessWeek article - Channeling Frances Perkins by Linda Craib - Jun 09
American Library Association top ten biographies in 2009 list - Jun 09
Washington Post article by Kirstin Downey - Obama's Missing Adviser - May 09
Review by Wendy Smith of the LA Times - Apr 09
Review by Bruce Steinbicker the Citizen Times, Ashville, NC - Apr 09
Review by Deirdre Donahue of USA Today - Apr 09
Review by Prof. Maureen Corrigan on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross - Apr 09
Press Herald article: New Deal leader celebrated in Maine - Apr 09
AFL-CIO NOW blog about Frances Perkins Center launch and Kirstin Downey - Apr 09
Library of Congress hosted a talk by Kirstin Downey aired on C-SPAN's BookTV - Apr 09
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviews Kirstin Downey on Frances Perkins - Mar 09
NPR's Jacki Lyden interviews Kirstin Downey on her recent biography of Frances Perkins - Mar 09
Maine Public Radio's Kieth Shotrtall interviews Barbara Burt and Tomlin Coggeshall - Mar 09
President Obama mentions Frances Perkins while signing an Executive Order - Mar 09
The (Springfield) Republican's Tom Shea writes about FP and her roots - Mar 09
NY Times OpEd page letter from Susan Dunn mentions FP on FDR - Jan 09
NY Times review of Adam Cohen's book "Nothing to Fear..." - Jan 09
LA Times review of Adam Cohen's book "Nothing to Fear..." - Jan 09
New York Times article by Adam Cohen on the New Deal - Jan 09
Harvard Magazine: Adam Cohen's article on FP - Jan 09
Esquire magazine reviews Adam Cohen's book: Nothing to Fear - Jan 09
Democracy Now interviews Adam Cohen - Jan 09
LA Times article likening Obama's choice of Hilda Solis to FDR's of FP - Dec 08

Recent reviews of Kirstin Downey's biography on Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal

An audio review by Sarah Bagby on Public Broadcasting - March 09
Prof. Christine Stansell, The University of Chicago: The Heroine of the New Deal - Mar 09
Boston Globe's review by Alex Beam: Downey's biography "seals the deal" - Mar 09
AP book review says biography gives due to FDR's labor secretary - Feb 09
Publishers Weekly reviews Kirstin Downey's FP biography - Dec 08

Film about Frances Perkins

You May Call Her Madame Secretary

Online Exhibits and presentations about Frances Perkins

Exhibit at Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscipt Library

Quotes from Frances Perkins

FP quotes listed on BetterWorldHeros.com
FP quotes listed on ThinkExist.com

Further information about Frances Perkins and her career

AFL-CIO on FP
American Jewish History - Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees
Columbia University's Oral History from FP
Columbia University - short biography
Cornell University, ILR School - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Cornell University, ILR School - Perkins's Triangle Shirtwaist Lecture
Cornell University, ILR School - Who was Frances Perkins?
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic site on FP
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at GWU
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute honors 70th
anniversary of Social Security
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute on Frances Perkins
George Mason University history course - letters to FP
Homestead, PA's historic marker for FP
The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Massachusetts Moments on FP's birthday
Mount Holyoke College's Frances Perkins Program
NPR - Penny Colman and Linda Wertheimer - Remembering Social Security's Forgotten Shepherd
Social Security Administration's background on FP
Social Security Administration - Committee on Economic Security Report
Social Security Administration - who's who at the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935
U.S. Department of Labor biography
U.S. Department of Labor essay on the New Deal & WWII period (1933 - 1945)
University of Southern Maine's Frances Perkins research
Wikipedia on FP

Documents related to Frances Perkins' career

President Carter's dedication statement in 1980
Wirtz Library at the Department of Labor

New Deal art (funded by part of the WPA program and supported by Frances Perkins)

1934: A New Deal for Artists: current show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
New Deal / WPA Art project website
New Deal art project of the Rome City School District
National Archives: A New Deal for the Arts
New Deal Network Gallery
New Deal art as listed by ArtLex

Audio files related to Frances Perkins' career

FP's 1964 lecture at Cornell and others' oral histories on the Triangle Factory Fire
FP's remarks at the 25th anniversary (1960) of Social Security - 11 minutes or so*
FP's remarks on the importance of the IBM machine - about one minute*
FP's 1935 radio address: Should we plan for Social Security?
FP's 1962 speech "Roots of Social Security" at SSA headquarters

* (These files require "Real Player" or another program to handle ".ram" audio files

Videos related to Frances Perkins' career

FDR announcing the Social Security Act with FP right behind him
MOT 1940: U.S. Secretary of Labor
Video of FP's life by Vineyard Video

Collections of Frances Perkins' papers

Frances Perkins Collection - Mount Holyoke College

Books written about Frances Perkins

The Woman Behind the New Deal, by Kirstin Downey, 2009
Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet Member, by Emily Keller, 2006
Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Naomi Pasachoff, 2000
A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins, by Penny Colman, 1993
Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR's Cabinet, by Lillian Holmen Mohr, 1979
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins: a Biography of America's First Woman Cabinet Member, by George Martin, 1976
Frances Perkins: A member of the Cabinet, by Bill Severn, 1976
Frances Perkins, First Lady of the Cabinet, by Don Lawson, 1966

Books written by Frances Perkins

Al Smith: hero of the cities: A political portrait drawing on the papers of Frances Perkins, by Matthew Josephson
The Roosevelt I Knew, by Frances Perkins, 1947

Frances Perkins's obituary in The New York Times and other memories

Obituary - The New York Times, by Not Sure
Frances Perkins's Career Memorialized, by Charles Wyzanski, May 15, 1965

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