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, ...

If you want to know what a difference 60 years makes to Lake County, try comparing telephone books published in 1930 and 1990. I refer you to the 1930 directory of Florida Telephone Corp., which later ...

As long as comparisons to the 1930s are getting thrown around with reckless abandon, another visit down history lane, courtesy of “Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second ...

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

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 ...

As part of my series of critical years in the history of St. Louis, I thought I would next focus on the year 1930. The federal census in this year revealed a new development between the city and the ...

Because radio was live, members of the WBZ staff became the "WBZ Radio Players", performing live radio dramas every week. Throughout the 1930s, WBZ has the premier "sound effects" man, W. Gordon Swan.

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 ...