Thoughts of the Great Depression most often conjure up images of gloom and despair, soup kitchens, or transients looking for any kind of work. Perhaps it was too early yet to feel the worst of its ...
HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...
“Monumental Designs: Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority,” a University Press of Mississippi ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “It was an exhilarating period and it gave one new faith in what we call democracy.” ...
The United States experienced a Great Depression during the 1930s causing one-quarter of its workforce to be unemployed. Although not formally recognized, a growing body of survey evidence indicates ...
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an ...
America once built a car with more cylinders than most supercars today, and its 100th birthday is fast approaching.
Desireé Clarke Miller, Moxie’s executive artistic director, is directing the theater’s 21st season-opening production.