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 ...

The early 1930s in Harrisburg were much like the rest of the nation - reeling from the stock market crash on Oct. 29, 1929, that led the country into the Great Depression. According to ...

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 ...

Jean Malin was one of the first openly gay performers in the Prohibition era during the "pansy craze" of the early 1930s. Malin stood six feet tall, weighed 200 pounds, and had a wavy crop of blonde ...

When theater and movie producers in the1920s and early 1930s needed actors and actresses to learn modern dance, they often ...

Take a step back into a decade that was caught right in between hardship and hope. This was a time when breadlines and ballrooms coexisted underneath the same smoky skyline. This collection of 25 ...

SHAKOPEE, Minn. — It was all supposed to be so easy. It was 10 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1929, amid the start of what would become the Great Depression. The three men were young, heavily armed, and only there ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the offseason, The Athletic is celebrating the 150th anniversary of college football, one decade at a time. For more on the 1930s, read Michael Weinreb on the rise of ...

The late 1920s and early 1930s was a time of endurance records. From dance marathons to flag pole sitting, Americans were suddenly fixated on breaking records and testing human fortitude. In the ...

The history of the uprising in rural Vietnam, still a French colony, which caused the local government to flee. The workers and peasants in the area then began administrating their affairs themselves ...