In July 1937, the Great Depression had eased to the point where the U.S. unemployment rate had dropped below 11%, but the tight monetary policy by the Roosevelt administration is said to have tipped ...

Visitors to General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" Pavilion at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair were given these pins reading "I Have Seen the Future" after riding the exhibit's "Futurama" ...

On the Public Domain Review, you can watch nostalgic, amateur footage of The New York World's Fair (1939-40). The hour-long compilation of footage shows everything from performers backstage to crowds ...

A forgotten victim of the Second World War is the Belgian Friendship Building, the small European nation’s contribution to the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Unable to repatriate it after the fair’s ...