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, ...

Miss Dunn’s eyes appear to be closed — or at least busy reading the newspaper in her hands. Standing out against a simple yellow background, her red-striped dress mirrors the lines of the broadsheet ...

The exhibition features works by 20th-century modern artists who transformed Connecticut into a center of innovation in the arts. On view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. Charles Sheeler, “On a ...

LANCASTER — The hardships and resilience experienced with striking similarity by Americans during two traumatic periods of history are on display in a photographic exhibit at the Decorative Arts ...

In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: What was the Great ...

GRATITUDE: “Prayer is an attitude. Thanksgiving is a mood," The Asheville Citizen wrote in a Nov. 27, 1930, editorial reflecting on the season of gratitude at the onset of the Great Depression. Photo ...

Amid green-gold fields dotted with haystacks and seeded with wheat and oats stood three structures: two thatched-roof barns (for a horse and a pair of milk-producing cows) and a white house at the ...

The original “All Quiet on the Western Front,” released in 1930, was the third-ever Oscar best picture winner. Banned in multiple countries, including Germany, Lewis Milestone’s epic World War I film ...

This article provides some historical context about the Great Depression, goes into detail about the current economic situation in terms of how it relates to that depression, and gives an overview of ...

‘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, ...