The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...

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, ...

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 ...

"This revised award-winning Yale dissertation brings to life the distinct but intersecting worlds of black and white Americans during the Depression. A collapsing cotton economy, alternating floods ...

Dox Thrash, "Untitled (Strike)" (c. 1940), watercolor, 17 1/8 x 12 inches; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Museum Purchase (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Compared to the roaring ’20s, where glamour and excess ruled all, the early 1930s were marked by hardship and uncertainty. Reeling from the Great Depression, people all across the country — rich and ...

During the Great Depression, families across America were forced to get creative in the kitchen, stretching limited ...

The New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square became a notable event in the 1930s, symbolizing hope and resilience during the Great Depression. For instance, on December 31, 1938, crowds gathered to ...

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 ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2009 - Buy Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression DVD ...

‘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, ...