A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...

Dox Thrash, "Untitled (Strike)" (c. 1940), watercolor, 17 1/8 x 12 inches; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Museum Purchase (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Rosie the Riveter became the female hero of World War II, a symbol of those women who took on vacant male-oriented jobs and played a valuable role in the war effort. But only a few years before, she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Puerto Rico became a colony of the US in 1898, much of its population was living in poverty. The US government and Puerto ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...