Something that I think is particularly cool about the 1930s was the way that filmmaking as an art develops during this time, even if it is, from the start, occasionally used for state-sponsored political messaging. The silent film era...
In 1919, the 18th amendment of the Constitution is ratified and the production and sale of alcohol is made federally illegal. This follows a long and harsh political campaign spearheaded by religious leaders from the late nineteenth...
At the waning end of the 19th century, American economics and culture entered a period known to many historians as “the Gilded Age”. Corporations started to consolidate power and as a result, America went through a period of significant...