Though some of these films are nearing their 100th birthday, these 10 classic westerns from the 1930s are still worth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1930s was a decade marked by the Great Depression, a global economic downturn of unprecedented scale. This period reshaped the world's understanding of economics and finance, underscoring the ...

The 1930s Dust Bowl, fueled by overplowing across the Great Plains and associated with record heat and drought, appears to have affected heat extremes far beyond the United States. New research finds ...