In this Yale lecture, Professor Beverly Gage covers the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, organized labor, and the broader social and economic upheavals of the 1930s. The class examines how the New Deal reshaped the relationship between the federal government and American citizens in response to the Great Depression. Recorded in Yale's Battell Chapel as part of the DeVane Lecture series America at 250: A History, the lecture is part of a one time course tracing United States history from 1776 to the present across lectures by three Yale historians, continuing Gage's sequence on the Progressive Era and its aftermath into the 1930s.