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 ...

During the Great Depression, politicians struggling to respond to the economic crisis needed a scapegoat, and racialized ...

USA - Common Jobs of Vintage America - Colorized Step back in time with us as we explore vibrant, colorized images capturing the essence of everyday jobs in 1930s America. During the Great Depression, ...

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 ...

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1935. Back in America, Black educator Melva L. Price rallied support for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the ...

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 ...

Recently I've read, and heard ad nauseam, about "Depression." Come with me back to Greene County Mississippi in 1935: "Miz Agnes, mama said, if you'd send her a little piece o' meat to cook our ...

After 78 years, with visions of the Great Depression lingering in my mind, current events remind me of a time when the basic needs of many could be described in simplistic terms. “Three hots and a ...

Donald Trump has officially revealed when America was last “great”: the 1930s. Catherine Rampell / Washington Post Back in that golden era, there was no polio vaccine. The United States instigated a ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration, which just unveiled the toughest tariffs in almost a century.