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By the Great Depression, community access to the arts had dried up, until federal art centers opened up to help fill in the gaps. A new exhibit displays paintings done by children at community art ...
Children of the Great Depression won the 2005 Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, and retails for $10.99. Note: I received a copy of the book for review purposes. Topics Armchair Geek children kids ...
Children of the Great Depression Russell Freedman, . . Clarion, $20 (118pp) ISBN 978-0-618-44630-8 ...
Here are 12 frugal habits Gen Z is borrowing from the Great Depression era that are saving them money and preserving their mental health. They're not just saving money, they're building community ...
The Depression Era children, the swing kids, saved the world. Now, a 100-year pandemic threatens our lives. A financial canyon separates classes, forcing others to question the privileges afforded ...
Like other era-defining historical trials, the Great Depression finally passed. But both on an individual and a governmental level, the end did not signal a return to status quo.
As my sociologist friend Maria put it, that Great Depression generation moved from hardship to the later affluence of the 1940s and 1950s. This current generation is doing the reverse. They are ...
The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...
While the Great Depression was a time of tremendous suffering, it was also a time of paradoxical hope. Your grandparents were all children of the Great Depression and carry with them traits from ...
Many readers responded to my newsletter last Friday about my great-grandfather’s life during the Depression in Vermont. I heard from neighbors, relatives and readers as far away as Australia ...