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One house, one town, one lecture

A new film about the real estate crash, the story of a farm town in Montana, and a lecture about the cultures of the Great Depression all give very different but very clear pictures of the economy and how we got here — then and now. The new feature-length documentary from filmmaker Leslie Cockburn was [...]

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The art of Herblock

A new exhibit at the Library of Congress celebrates the art of political cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”), looking at how he chronicled news events, from 1929 through 2001.

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