Timothy Kelly is Professor of History at St. Vincent College. His most recent book is The Transformation of American Catholicism.Margaret Power is Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on the Transnational Right and author of Right-Wing Women in Chile, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.Michael Cary is Professor of History and Political Science at Seton Hill University and the author of This American Courthouse.

“The story of Norvelt reinforces the ways race and class are intricately bound together in American policy. . . . It’s a piece of history worth recovering.”—Margaret Garb In These Times

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The World of Coal Mining, Coking, and Patch Communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880–19202The Crisis: The Great Depression in the Nation and Westmoreland County3The Response: The New Deal and the Subsistence Homestead Program4The Great Experiment: The Cooperative Ethos and Community Building5Challenges to the Cooperative Ethos6Becoming Norvelt: The Triumph of the Middle Way7Living in Norvelt: Domestic Architecture8Norvelt Today: The Evolution of a New Deal CommunityConclusion: Did Norvelt Succeed?Appendix: List of IntervieweesNotesBibliographyIndex

Timothy Kelly is Professor of History at St. Vincent College. His most recent book is The Transformation of American Catholicism.Margaret Power is Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on the Transnational Right and author of Right-Wing Women in Chile, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.Michael Cary is Professor of History and Political Science at Seton Hill University and the author of This American Courthouse.

“The story of Norvelt reinforces the ways race and class are intricately bound together in American policy. . . . It’s a piece of history worth recovering.”—Margaret Garb In These Times

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The World of Coal Mining, Coking, and Patch Communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880–19202The Crisis: The Great Depression in the Nation and Westmoreland County3The Response: The New Deal and the Subsistence Homestead Program4The Great Experiment: The Cooperative Ethos and Community Building5Challenges to the Cooperative Ethos6Becoming Norvelt: The Triumph of the Middle Way7Living in Norvelt: Domestic Architecture8Norvelt Today: The Evolution of a New Deal CommunityConclusion: Did Norvelt Succeed?Appendix: List of IntervieweesNotesBibliographyIndex

Timothy Kelly is Professor of History at St. Vincent College. His most recent book is The Transformation of American Catholicism.Margaret Power is Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor of New Perspectives on the Transnational Right and author of Right-Wing Women in Chile, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.Michael Cary is Professor of History and Political Science at Seton Hill University and the author of This American Courthouse.

“The story of Norvelt reinforces the ways race and class are intricately bound together in American policy. . . . It’s a piece of history worth recovering.”—Margaret Garb In These Times

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1The World of Coal Mining, Coking, and Patch Communities in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880–19202The Crisis: The Great Depression in the Nation and Westmoreland County3The Response: The New Deal and the Subsistence Homestead Program4The Great Experiment: The Cooperative Ethos and Community Building5Challenges to the Cooperative Ethos6Becoming Norvelt: The Triumph of the Middle Way7Living in Norvelt: Domestic Architecture8Norvelt Today: The Evolution of a New Deal CommunityConclusion: Did Norvelt Succeed?Appendix: List of IntervieweesNotesBibliographyIndex