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 claim uses 1930 income figures that captured only the richest 10% or so of Americans, which skews the comparison with typical incomes from the entire population today. • One federal statistic ...

Travel through five decades of American life — from the hard times of the 1930s to the bright neon glow of the 1980s. These beautifully colorized photos reveal how a nation rebuilt, dreamed, and ...

It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were losing their homes each year. Times were ...

The 1920s were a roaring decade in the United States and Indiana followed suit. The decade saw a growth spurt in Indianapolis and earned the nickname as the 'Golden Age' of the city. It all came to a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When economists tell us the current U.S. slump could never turn into another Great Depression, they all point to one thing: one of four Americans was out of work in the 1930s. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Depression is remembered as one of the most difficult periods in American history. In 1933 alone, nearly 13 million ...

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.” ...

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