Movies and other forms of entertainment thrived in tough economic times by appealing to people’s need for escapism.

Quentin Tarantino and Sylvester Stallone are likely to collaborate on an upcoming gangster series. Read on to know more ...

How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History, by Michigan State historian and consultant for HBO’s The Gilded Age Helen Zoe Veit, offers a history lesson that parents might not know ...

When Franklin Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, he wasted little time getting down to business. The sweeping changes he ...

A historic Pentecostal church in Mashpee has been holding prayer sessions since 1930. But the church is grappling with how to recruit young families.

Rev. Don Wheat, 92, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Dayton, Ohio on Halloween 1933, Donald Hoover Wheat was the rare working-class, Great-Depression baby named for President Hoover. Parents William and ...

The coins are worth a lot more than their face value. Picture: 9News The coins were minted at the Melbourne Mint during the ...

See photos from 1930s in Louisville. From Franklin Roosevelt's visit to the flooding in 1937, see what life was like in the Derby City 90 years ago.

Marie Kilkinney is 96 years old and a newly published author. Her book, Four in a Tub: A Memoir, chronicles her childhood during the Great Depression as one of 20 siblings ...

Tucked into the forested hills of southeastern Oklahoma, Beavers Bend State Park has grown from a modest Depression-era project into one of the state’s most popular outdoor ...

Michigan’s oldest resident, Bonita Gibson, who lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, the rise of modern ...

Nearly 100 years ago on March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broadcast the first of many “fireside chats,” straight from the White House.