Throughout the wartime years, the need for workers in agriculture, as well as in manufacturing and the...
Great Depression
The New Deal maintained racial hierarchies even as it aided African Americans through relief projects. By Dr....
Usually cast as a President defined by his failure to contain the Great Depression, Hoover’s story is...
A worldwide economic depression and domestic problems bolstered the idea that the U.S. should isolate itself from...
Many factors, including World War I and its aftermath, set the stage for this economic disaster. Factors...
The idea of such a tower was derided at first as an eyesore, but more “beautification” was...
Examining how the popular media documented the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront. Originally...
By Tom MorainHistorian Introduction Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things...
What did the New Deal look like in Chicago and the greater Illinois region? Who were its...
Eighty years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with...