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 ...

This article is from sister publication Irish America magazine. To enjoy more articles from their History Archives, click here. The 1930s. Before the decade was over, America would be a vastly ...

On New Year’s Day 1930, Floridians felt whiplashed from the brutal ending of the wildest decade in the state’s history. Like a titanic roller coaster, the 1920s had brought unimaginable prosperity — ...

For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. But why was this ...

As long as comparisons to the 1930s are getting thrown around with reckless abandon, another visit down history lane, courtesy of “Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second ...

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 ...

Into the 1920s, the city’s largest employers were the cotton manufacturing corporations. As extensively documented, during the early years of Lowell’s mills the workforce was composed largely of ...