Kidnapping was a lucrative, dangerous epidemic in the United States between 1925 and 1934. It was a quick, lawless way for desperate people, caught in the harsh times of The Dust Bowl and The Great ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The body of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger is expected to be exhumed in September from a concrete-encased grave at an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was ...

John Dillinger was a major figure in the gangster era of the 1930s. The body John Dillinger, who is accused of terrorizing the Midwest in the early 1930s and became a major figure of the U.S.

Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the women's workshop of the biennial conference of the European Association of American Studies, held at the Freie Universität Berlin from Mar. 28-31, ...

While she went on to rule Harlem during the early 20th century, St. Clair was born in the West Indies, in a place currently called Guadeloupe. She was born on December 24, 1897. Photo: Arlenechang via ...