Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Breaking News of the 1930s

By the 1930s, the radio was becoming a staple in American homes. Now people didn't have to wait for the evening paper — ...

5 Odd Rules American Factory Workers Followed In The 1930s

The Great Depression was more than just long shifts and uncertain paychecks for American factory workers. Certain programs ...
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Beginning in the 1930s, America built 29 giant locks and dams across the Mississippi River and they turned a wild river into a massive water staircase

For centuries, the Upper Mississippi River was a free-flowing waterway, with shallow stretches, strong currents and constantly changing channels. Then America decided to engineer it. Beginning in the ...
PBS

The 1930s

America’s response to the unprecedented economic crisis that threatened the nation during one of history’s most tumultuous decades. One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation ...
Jazz

The 1930s: Soup Kitchens, Shirley Temple and Swing

If we had to flop, at least I’d do it my own way, playing the kind of music I wanted to. —Benny Goodman on his Palomar show that changed music history Just as the 1920s were defined by the Jazz Age, ...
Artnet

The 1930s Have Been Viewed as a Time of Simple-Minded Art. ‘Art for the Millions’ Shows Just How Dazzlingly Complex It Was

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 ...
New York Post

How the American spirit really survived the Great Depression

More than half a decade into the Great Depression, an Indiana commentator published a sad little profile of his fellow American. “Who is the ‘forgotten man’ in ...