FILE -- This Feb. 20, 1939 file photo shows Fritz Kuhn, second from left, national leader of the German-American Bund, and Gustave Elmer, third from left, national director of Organization for the ...

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 ...

“The year 1939 was a pivotal year in history,” Kahn tells Untapped New York. The play follows three storylines centered around different characters in New York that year. There’s an American-born ...

In this October 1964 photo provided by worldsfairphotos.com, four women eat Belgian Waffles on the Grounds of the World's Fair in Queens. Belgian Waffles were introduced to the American public at the ...

More than 70 years later and the world is still far from reaching the technological and architectural utopia depicted at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Touted as "Building the World of Tomorrow," the ...

Brendan Mathews explores Irish immigration and assimilation, all the while accompanied by the chatty ghost of a famous Irish writer, in his epic new novel The World of Tomorrow. This sweeping saga is ...

“The World of Tomorrow,” the affable debut novel by Brendan Mathews, begins neither here nor there. All is in transition. It’s 1939, World War II is imminent, and we join the story aboard the MV ...

NEW YORK — A crowd of 20,000 gives the Nazi salute as swastikas flank a giant portrait of George Washington. Unimaginable to most Americans, the pro-Hitler rally that took place 80 years ago this week ...