Special Features
- Interview: Robert Sobel
- Interview: Arthur Marx
- Interview: Craig Mitchell
- Interview: Patricia Livermore
- Timeline: A Selected Wall Street Chronology
- Interview: John Kenneth Galbraith
The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking consequences when reality finally hit on October 29th, ultimately leading to the Great Depression.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
Did you or a family member experience life in America in the 1930s? What does the decade mean to you? Share your American experience with us.
The Orphan Trains
Between 1854 and 1929 more than 100,000 abused or orphaned children were sent by train to the Midwest to begin new lives in foster families.
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New York: The Center of the World
Postwar New York City and the global economic order told through the story of the World Trade Center.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Revisited
An updated look at the Alabama tenant farmer families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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U.S. Grant: Warrior
A revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders.
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
A look at five real-life "Rosies," the reality of working in defense plants during World War II and then having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
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A Class Apart
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
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Seabiscuit
Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
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