The 1930s were restless years. Hundreds of thousands of people were “on the bum,” or rode freight trains around the country looking for farm work at about $25 a summer month. With the promise of ...

Rosie the Riveter became the female hero of World War II, but just a few years earlier women in the Inland Empire were being ...

The philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but also, less famously, “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened ...

• 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 ...

ImagineGolf/istockphotoThe Great Depression wasn’t just a rough patch — it was an economic freefall that left millions ...

Due to the ongoing government shutdown, the prospect of November's SNAP benefits going unpaid indefinitely is growing closer.

During former U.S. President Donald Trump's term in office, the U.S. suffered the lowest job growth and highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. During the Trump administration, the U.S.

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

Isaac Hockenhull and Mahalia Jackson were married for five years in the 1930s. Uncover how he impacted the life of one of ...