The New Deal programs of the 1930s helped revive the U.S. economy after the Great Depression. In 1935, the Social Security Act provided retirement benefits for U.S. workers, but domestics and farm ...

Although the Portuguese immigrant population declined in the 1920s, the number of Portuguese owning their homes increased. At the beginning of the decade 87 Portuguese born overseas owned their ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MORRISON, Colo. — Red Rocks Park and ...

It doesn’t take much reading between the lines to figure out the economics of making the Thanksgiving feast double as the wedding reception. In the war years of the 1940s, brides faced additional ...

The remarkable radio design and production machinery stem from engineer John Sargrove's fertile imagination. It's too bad this technology never took off. I really want one of his radios though.

The crisis in Xinjiang, where Chinese authorities have locked up an estimated one million or more Uighurs in “reeducation camps” in an attempt, they claim, to eliminate terrorism, is an object lesson ...

This is the story of eight of us who shared a remarkable childhood, growing up in the small town of Midland, Michigan. At the time, I don’t think any of us thought of our growing up years as "wonder ...

These photographs were all shot by Arthur Fellig and are said to have highly influenced the film noir genre. In fact, in 1945 he published a book of his photographs, called Naked City, which inspired ...

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