The first half of the 1940s were marked by World War II, from watching updates with worry in Times Square to walking through ...

A look at life in Rochester NY in the 1990s ...

For genealogists and family historians, the 1940 census release is the most important disclosure of ancestral secrets in a decade and could shake the branches of many family trees. Scholars expect the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- He spent his entire savings of $12.50 on the 35 mm Argus AF camera in 1939 and for four years documented life in the small Iowa town of Ridgeway. But it wasn't until he was ...

August Wilson's Seven Guitars, recently staged at Anthony Bean Community Theater, shows us African-American life in 1940s Pittsburgh. The play is part of Wilson's decade-by-decade account of ...