One of the most iconic American images is American Gothic, a 1930 painting by Grant Wood of a farmer holding a pitchfork, ...

This simple breakfast, made with just three basic ingredients, was an easy and effective way to stretch the humble potato ...

Burke and Herbert Bank has survived the Union Army’s Civil War occupation, the 1930s Great Depression, toughened federal regulations, the computer revolution, superbank-merger mania, economic ...

Route 66, which turns 100 years old this year, missed Arkansas' northwest corner by about 23 miles. But much of Arkansas' ...

For decades, the Hotel Carter in Times Square was the site of squalor and crime. Now rundown and empty, its future is tied up ...

Local realtors in the 1930s invented colored maps to keep minority residents in their place. Episode 4 of a 12-part series: As the Great Depression deepened in the 1930s, the housing industry faced ...

Louisville experienced several major events during the 1930s, including a presidential visit and a catastrophic flood. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned for president in Louisville in 1932 amid the ...

For many people who lived through the era, the decade of the 1930s was a period they’d rather forget. This tumultuous decade started with an economic depression, ended with the outbreak of a global ...

Picture this - It's the early 1930s and you're a farmer in Iowa. The Great Depression had been raging for two years and things are looking bleak. Sales are down, the banks have closed and drought has ...

Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...