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The Forward on MSN2d
Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
A new retrospective on the social realist artist presents the diversity of his career, and hints to how his Jewishness ...
Museum of Modern Art22d
Collection 1880s–1940s
Artist, Dorothea Lange (archival): I many times encountered ... This photograph has become such a shorthand for the suffering of the Great Depression. Lange really understood the power of photographic ...
Museum of Modern Art22d
Verbal Descriptions
Artist, Dorothea Lange (archival): I many times encountered ... This photograph has become such a shorthand for the suffering of the Great Depression. Lange really understood the power of photographic ...
15 Haunting Photos of the 1930s Dust Bowl
In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of ...
The New Republic3d
What America Made of Marx
The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...
Business Insider20d
20 vintage photos show the 1929 stock market crash that set off the Great Depression
The 1929 stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression. Factors including speculative lending and changing monetary policies contributed to the crash. Photos show the panic in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel27d
Dorothea Steppler Konkol
Dorothea Steppler Konkol passed away peacefully on April 29, 2025, in Greenfield, Wisconsin. The youngest of five children born to Fred and Eulalia (Doyle) Steppler, Dorothea had a happy childhood ...
Healthline24d
Caring for Yourself Through Depression and Weight Gain
Here are six common reasons why depression can lead to weight changes, along with supportive, realistic tips to help you care for yourself through each one. Depression can change the way we eat ...
The Nation28d
Opposing Mass Deportation: What We Can Learn From the Resistance to Japanese Internment
(Dorothea Lange / Getty Images) The daily reveal of anti-immigrant actions by the US government has been spectacularly shocking. Somehow each new human rights violation, new constitutional ...
The Motley Fool26d
The S&P 500 Just Completed a Feat So Rare It Was Last Witnessed During the Great Depression -- and It Has a 100% Success Rate of Forecasting Where Stocks Go Next
Last week, the benchmark S&P 500 completed a feat so rare -- only the fifth occurrence in 98 years -- that the last time it was observed was during the Great Depression. More importantly ...
The Motley Fool27d
U.S. Money Supply Just Made History! But It's a Recent Shift -- the First Since the Great Depression -- That Historically Leads to a Big Move in Stocks.
This marked the first time since the Great Depression that M2 contracted by more than 2% on a year-over-year and cumulative basis from a recent high. It's possible this 4.76% peak-to-trough ...
Benzinga.com2d
Best Depression Stocks
Though the U.S. has experienced several recessions, there has only been 1 major depression. Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...