During the 1930s, the Great Depression cast a long shadow across America. But life didn’t stop: People worked, danced, built, invented, rebelled, and dreamed of a brighter future. From steelworkers ...

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an ...

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 ...

Smile like Roosevelt -- Such a happy little face! -- Dancing along the color line -- The most adored child in the world -- Keeping Shirley's star aloft -- What's a private life? -- Epilogue: Shirley ...

With low unemployment, robust GDP growth, and a buoyant stock market, America appears to be performing well economically. But there is a notable disconnect on social media, where many express a ...

Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...

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 ...

‘Reality Makes Them Dream’ features over 100 prints, periodicals and photo books from the 1930s that go beyond the documentary-style images we’ve come to expect from the era. Marion Post Wolcott, ...