Read about the ways the American government and people looked inward during the 1930s, isolating themselves from actions taking place in Europe and Asia.

The 1930's Dust Bowl era was about the grueling times of people suffering in the drought-stricken region of the Oklahoma pan handle. This instructional activity will help students to gain an understanding of the plights of the people....

Senator Joseph McCarthy did not create the national obsession with communist subversion. It had arisen in the late 1930s, years before McCarthy had come to public notice. Angry that they had been barred from the corridors of power for 20...

In the 1930s, the Communist Party and associated organizations attracted the support of a glittering array of novelists, screenwriters, critics, and artists. Within the Communist Party, these individuals had found comradeship,...

"Some 2,400 British men and women traveled to Spain in the 1930s to fight in the civil war against fascism. The Guardian has interviewed 23 of the 40 survivors. Here are their accounts."

Mexicans coming to the United States through an El Paso, Texas immigration station. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1938.