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American fashions shifted in the 1930s. The 1920s had been a decade of excess. Fashions for both young men and women—the "sheiks" and "flappers"—grew increasingly extravagant. The Great Depression...

Business and the economy in the 1930s were in a state of upheaval. The Great Depression was an international economic calamity so overwhelming that many around the world considered it an omen of divine disapproval. Old economic solutions failed to...

In the 1930s the biggest health concern of America was how to pay for medical needs. The national income was less than half of what it had been in 1929, and in several states as many as 40 percent of the people were on relief. Many Americans could not...

The 1930s represented one of the most significant periods of reform legislation in the history of the United States. During this decade, there occurred developments in the law that contributed significantly to the emergence of the modern American state....

The 1930s (from the years 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the World Depression.[1] The decade started off...

In the spring of 1930, the Bureau of the Census temporarily employed nearly 87,800 individuals as enumerators for the Fifteenth Census of the United States. Each was at least eighteen years old, a U.S. citizen, and had successfully filled out a test census...

Hemingway: The 1930s. By Michael Reynolds. New York and London: Norton. 1988. xx+360 pp. [pound]19.95 (paperbound [pound]9.95). Hemingway: The 1930s is the fourth volume of a five-volume biographical series on this most influential and infamous of American writers. The previous volumes:...

Charles passed away today at his Beverly Hills, Calif. home in the presence of family and friends. He was 73.Born Ray Charles Robinson on Sept. 23, 1930, the first child of Aretha and Bailey Robinson, Ray Charles soon moved from Georgia to Florida. At age...

Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles (110 kilometers) out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the 1930s Depression era, when homeless...