Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It was an era when style was unmistakably defined, and men and women, despite the immense challenges they faced, always found a way to express their elegance. There were no piercings or tattoos; ...

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) There is a photo of federal housing ...

Our nation is deeply wounded after the events of last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a white nationalist gathering erupted in violence, resulting in the death of activist Heather Heyer and ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

Images of various households taken during the 1940 Census, assembled by the National Archives and the United States Census Bureau. With clipboards in hand, almost 120,000 census takers traveled to all ...

These recolections begin when i was just over 4 years old in Newcastle Underlyme in Staffordshire. Sometime in the summer of 1940, a german aeroplane which came to bomb the Shelton Steel Works in ...

Instead of the re-election of Franklin D Roosevelt for a third term in 1940, the aviation pioneer and wildly popular celebrity Charles Lindbergh is elected President, on a platform of keeping America ...

Janette Gaines and Josh Baldwin, two of the cast members of the 1940's USA Radio Show tell us about the upcoming performances of the show by the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. The show runs from ...

Seventy years ago the U.S. was transitioning from an epic financial crisis — one that brought high unemployment, plunging farm profits and lost opportunities — to one of the world's deadliest and most ...