HIS FPX 1150 Assessment 4 Living History
Capella University
HIS FPX 1150 History
Prof. Name
November, 2024
Living History
Living history reminds us how past events and reactions could guide our approach to fighting present and future challenges just like learning how to apply the Great Depression and New Deal models to today’s organizational strategy (Lee & Woo, 2020). By recreating historical moments and making people experience how history was made long ago, living history enables us to grasp the concrete effects of certain policy decisions and economic reforms in a way that abstract study cannot achieve. Knowledge about the strength and resilience portrayed during the Great Depression might inspire current organizations to seek innovative approaches while facing economic instability. Living history does more than transform the strategies and challenges in previous eras into actual living history; it also provides a means for bridging history and practice today: the solutions of the past can guide it in its efforts to address organizational issues in modern times. This process instills in those in charge today an appreciation of how historical knowledge can indeed help build very sustainable and resilient frameworks while at the same time inspiring today’s leaders to learn from and apply the insights garnered from history to strengthen their decision-making processes and long-term planning.
Description of Historical Movement
The New Deal was a movement undertaken in the United States beginning in the 1930s by the Great Depression, which made it a point to change the American history scene and completely makeover the economic and social setup of the United States (Hacker et al., 2021). Led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal was initiated to try and bring relief to millions of Americans affected by the economic collapse, promote economic recovery, and reform the financial system to prevent future crises. This was a complex set of programs and programs, including the creation of Social Security, public works projects, and banking reform, for example, the FDIC, which protected depositors. The movement heralded a strong shift toward an active government role in the economy and presented the idea of a social safety net that has continued to shape U.S. policy to this day. The New Deal eased immediate suffering by creating jobs and improving infrastructure, through enhanced protection of workers. Thus, it addressed large-scale challenges by laying a historic movement for a more resilient and inclusive economy than otherwise would have been achieved.
Historical Movement and Personal Impacts
The New Deal as a historical movement has a deep impact on American society, though its influence may be seen to be very deep in the lives of individuals and communities across the country (Shi, 2020). The New Deal gave relief and hope in almost any tangible sense to most; examples include WPA and CCC by employing in public work projects, which allowed millions of people to labor on infrastructure and restore something closer to a sense of purpose and dignity. Programs like Social Security gave people a vitally important kind of financial security for the elderly and disabled which profoundly changed Americans’ plans for old age and their concepts of what their government’s role ought to be in times of crisis. For myself, the principles of the New Deal—believing in a social safety net and that government intervention is needed in hard times—are very applicable today.
Many of us enjoy the fruits of Social Security and other programs that were originally implemented at this time. To those who suffered with the newer economics of the New Deal, the security of the New Deal policies has translated to current relief programs as reasons to make resources available during trying times. The New Deal legacy is thus not just historical; it also embodies something profoundly personal because it sets the present understanding of community support, economic stability, and social responsibility (Timóteo et al., 2024).
Suffrage and the Great Depression
The two landmark moments in U.S. history are the suffrage movement and the Great Depression, each of which transformed the nation in a very significant way. The suffrage movement reached its peak with the 19th Amendment in 1920, where women were granted the right to vote (Marino, 2024). This was a significant step toward gender equality, opening up democratic participation among women to influence social policies, push for workplace protections, and advocate for issues affecting families and communities. A decade later, the Great Depression threw a nation into crippling economic depression, and it was there that the millions of unemployed and poor suffered in numbers not seen before. It was in this period that the amplified voice of women aided New Deal reforms on the state and national levels for economic and social welfare.
So many women, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins, the first female Cabinet member, supported relief work and labor reforms that would alleviate so much of the Depression’s sting. Suffrage therefore prepared the ground for women to be actively involved in shaping responses to national crises. That should suggest how political inclusion can strengthen societal resilience. For example, using suffrage and the Great Depression, the inner and outer significance displays how an extension of democratic rights can empower numerous voices to make grand changes toward collective challenges and more inclusive approaches to national policy reform.
Potential Impact on the Future
Today, even the historical suffrage movements and the effects of the Great Depression resonate powerfully in the direction they mold toward a more durable future where societies place so much emphasis on incorporating them. Democracy could best thrive with the enabling rights granted to women and such disenfranchised groups when policymaking representation is highly diversified as seen in the historical case of the women’s suffrage movement (Ela, 2024). The New Deal’s response to the Great Depression set a standard for government responsibility in its support of economic stability and social welfare. Its policy has inspired future policies that help to soften the crunch of crises like economic recession or pandemics. All these movements prove that a society can be more adaptable equitable and prepared for the future if needs are addressed inclusively to governmental responsiveness. This legacy incites contemporary leaders to use such principles as a basis to build policies that would promote social and economic resilience to emerging global challenges climate change, economic inequality, or a public health crisis.
HIS FPX 1150 Assessment 4 Conclusion
History is full of very valuable lessons that will inform how to approach modern challenges, from social reforms to economic resilience (Haldon et al., 2020). When looking at movements like the New Deal or the suffrage campaign, one can see how past responses to crises form long-term change, from establishing safety nets to empowering previously unrepresented voices. Living history allows us the opportunity to be immersed in these kinds of experiences to allow the lessons of adaptiveness, inclusiveness, and proactive leadership to permit lessons learned from history to provide lessons for today’s organizational decision-making and policy formulation about building a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. Thinking in the long run, that’s what history teaches us, embracing social responsibility, and innovation as a manner of producing solutions for future generations.
HIS FPX 1150 Assessment 4 Reference
Ela, N. (2024). A Path to Multiparty Democracy. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4986682
