Home life in the 1930s was heavily influences by the Great Depression, an era when abundance was almost unheard of. Frugality was the name of the game; resilience and working together defined daily ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition shows that meaning of this time period for art was in debate, even as it happened. Ben Shahn, Welders (1943) in "Art for the Millions" at the Metropolitan ...

Jeremy has more than 2800 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

It hit me on a Sunday night back in the fall of 2008. Troubled investment bank Merrill Lynch was selling itself in firesale fashion to Bank of America. What will forever be known as the "financial ...

Video restoration expert NASS colorized and enhanced footage from nearly a century ago to create this 7-minute video that reveals what downtown Los Angeles looked like in the 1930s. A Colorized View ...

Many people draw parallels between today and the 1930s, labeling this the Great Recession. They note the high unemployment rate, referring not to the mismeasured, official statistic, but to the number ...

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about major ...

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