Before there was Dance Moms or Toddlers & Tiaras, there was the Williams family, hauling their tap shoes and tent show across North Carolina with zero f*cks given about consistent schooling for their ...

According to Genoways, also an award-winning poet, Kalar was unlike many of the protest poets of the Depression era because he lived the working man’s life he wrote about. A ravaging life of ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...

At the height of the Great Depression, thousands of jobless men were shunted off to federal ... of a government's ineffectiveness during the era. In 1932, the federal government set relief camps ...

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the ... all within the context of depression-era America. The story of the ...