Though some of these films are nearing their 100th birthday, these 10 classic westerns from the 1930s are still worth ...

At the close of last week’s G20 Summit, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron warned that we’re on the verge of another global recession, citing problems like looming deflation, falling prices, and rising ...

Home life in the 1930s was heavily influences by the Great Depression, an era when abundance was almost unheard of. Frugality was the name of the game; resilience and working together defined daily ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition shows that meaning of this time period for art was in debate, even as it happened. Ben Shahn, Welders (1943) in "Art for the Millions" at the Metropolitan ...

It hit me on a Sunday night back in the fall of 2008. Troubled investment bank Merrill Lynch was selling itself in firesale fashion to Bank of America. What will forever be known as the "financial ...

Many people draw parallels between today and the 1930s, labeling this the Great Recession. They note the high unemployment rate, referring not to the mismeasured, official statistic, but to the number ...

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about major ...