On New Year’s Day 1930, Floridians felt whiplashed from the brutal ending of the wildest decade in the state’s history. Like a titanic roller coaster, the 1920s had brought unimaginable prosperity — ...

Although the Portuguese immigrant population declined in the 1920s, the number of Portuguese owning their homes increased. At the beginning of the decade 87 Portuguese born overseas owned their ...

For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. But why was this ...

The 1930s were a tumultuous time in the United States. The decade, bookended by the stock market crash in 1929 and the start of World War II in 1939, saw the Great Depression, Dust Bowl and the New ...

The history of the uprising in rural Vietnam, still a French colony, which caused the local government to flee. The workers and peasants in the area then began administrating their affairs themselves ...