A former park ranger has been searching for decades for an original copy of a historic WPA poster for Great Smoky Mountains ...

People being resilient and persisting through trying times nearly a century apart is the subject of the newest exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Art. “Chronicles: The Great Depression and the ...

In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: What was the Great ...

Russell Lee, "Son of sharecropper in window of old home, Southeast Missouri Farms" (1938/ 2024) (all photos courtesy Art Bridges) When the United States Department of Agriculture established the Farm ...

Joseph Hirsch, “Banquet” (1945), lithograph on beige wove paper (Portland Art Museum, gift of Christopher Russell) PORTLAND, Oregon — The Portland Art Museum’s exhibit on the innovative business ...

"Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California" was one of hundreds of photographs that Dorothea Lange made during the 1930s, most of them while on assignment for such federal agencies as the Resettlement ...

Earlier this week I received a beautiful, handmade holiday card from “The Candy Man,” the inmate who paints with M & M’s. [see the blog post “The Candy Man: A Prisoner Paints with Delectable Materials ...

The Great Depression was a landmark event that had lasting economic, social, and political repercussions, some of which are still with us nearly a century later. Learn more about the Great Depression ...