During the Great Depression, Americans turned to a Native American staple to fill their bellies at a time when there wasn't ...

See the staple foods and inventive meals that sustained families during the Great Depression, from homemade breads to creative uses of modest ingredients.

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 ...

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, ...

Last year’s economics Nobelist, Claudia Goldin, wrote an influential article in 1998 on the rise of high school in the United States. In 1900, about 10 percent of Americans of proper age attended high ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...

‘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, ...