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The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...
The 1930s were a time of great change that saw many milestones that would come to define the decade. The Great Depression ...
It feels frustratingly appropriate that after my column last Wednesday in which I called for a careful strategy for improving Government efficiency, on the following Friday the Government would termin ...
Money in circulation mirrors production. Reduced money in circulation didn’t cause the 1930s, rather it was an effect of ...
Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political ...
Like a contagious disease, socialism comes roaring back when people have forgotten the terrible damage it did the last time ...
Shahn was an American phenomenon, but a new retrospective suggests that we’ve come to prize his politics over his ...
Breadline Blues” — one of the haunting anthems of the Great Depression — tells the story of a man who saw all of his fellow ...
Photography has an unparalleled power to freeze moments, evoke emotions, and shape our understanding of history. A single ...
A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as ...
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In simple terms, it’s a raised platform with columns that support a canopy or roof. While it was originally just a primitive, ...