Cream the fat, add the sugar gradually and work until creamy. Add the well beaten eggs, milk and oatmeal, the flour and cinnamon mixed and sifted, and the raisins. Drop the batter by teaspoonfuls on a ...

Works Progress Administration photographers and their sign-toting assistants, like the one pictured, created a visual record of every building in Jackson County, Missouri, for a tax assessment in 1940 ...

the majority of states in the Rocky Mountain region. Several other states are more than 80 percent done or in the final stages of being completed. According to Nauta, more than 150,000 volunteers ...

Chicago has played host to many expositions in the city’s history — perhaps most notably to the Columbian Exposition, often called the World’s Fair of 1893. In what is now known as Jackson Park, the ...

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...

The fifth NFL Draft was held Dec. 9, 1939, at the Schroeder Hotel, now the Hilton Milwaukee. The meeting was conducted in the Empire Ballroom, started at 2 p.m. and was over "within a few hours," ...