A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...

The Farm Bill, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, died on Oct. 1, but with Congress on its long election break until November 14, it has not yet been buried. When Congress ...

There was a time of great prosperity in the U.S. after the end of World War I. The period is remembered as the Roaring Twenties. Unemployment was low and the economy did well. Many people bought ...

Cronyism is the practice by which government officials provide preferential treatment (such as loans, subsidies or regulatory preferences) to handpicked firms or industries. It is a bipartisan ...

The new century dawns, 1901-1910 -- The glow of the Golden Age, 1910-1914 -- The great war and its aftermath, 1914-1920 -- Down on the farm in the Roaring Twenties -- Depression, drought, and the next ...