Life

June 15, 2022

Helping Build the New Deal

Henry A. Wallace was a key champion and architect of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Appointed to his father’s old job as Secretary of Agriculture in […]
June 15, 2022

Early Lessons in Race and the Environment

Henry A. Wallace was born in Iowa in 1888 to an activist family. His grandfather founded an influential magazine, “Wallace’s Farmer,” and his father would later […]