Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., who reimagined the potential of human achievement before a worldwide audience when he walked on the moon, was born on this day in history, Jan. 20, ...

See the Great Depression in Indy, the end of Prohibition and more through the eyes of our photographers of the 1930s.

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

In the bleak years of the Great Depression, when dreams were cheap and bread wasn’t, America found its strangest form of escape—dance marathons. What began as lighthearted endurance contests turned ...

In May 2021, as increasing numbers of people living in the United States and around the world received COVID-19 vaccinations, misinformation about vaccines became more prevalent, especially on social ...

Over the next decade, radio became the dominant home entertainment for Americans suffering financial hardships of the Great Depression. The programming patterns we still see on television today—news ...

Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

The movie begins in New York City in 1933. Now this where our Fashion on Film series comes in handy. If you recall the piece we did on the 1930s decade, the 30s was The Great Depression (though very ...

ELVERSON — Hopewell Furnace invites you to join in commemorating the contributions of the Civilian Conservation Corps with a guided hike and encampment on site on Saturday, Sept. 28. All programming ...