In July 1937, the Great Depression had eased to the point where the U.S. unemployment rate had dropped below 11%, but the ...

The Cincinnati Reds visited the Brooklyn Dodgers and split a double-header at Ebbets Field as Major League Baseball was broadcast on television for the first time on this day in history, August 26, ...

The New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940 promised visitors they would be looking at the "World of Tomorrow." Not everything they saw there came true, but plenty was close. One reason for that was ...

Dodge unveiled a new family of commercial trucks beginning in the 1939 model year. Popularly referred to as the Dodge "Job-Rated" trucks, the lineup was internally known as the T Series in 1939, the V ...

For most commuters crossing the Bay Bridge, Treasure Island is just an oddly flat strip of land pancaked on the bay, incongruously joined to Yerba Buena Island and serving no discernible function. But ...

The 1939 World’s Fair sat on the precipice of disaster. Sandwiched between the Great Depression and the U.S. entry into World War II, the timing was audacious — but the attractions were delightful.

Long before C-3PO and Wall-e, there was Elektro, a smoking, talking, and walking robot that wowed the World's Fair in 1939. Meet the seminal robot that has been rescued from the scrap heap of time.

On the evening of Feb. 20, 1939, the marquee of New York's Madison Square Garden was lit up with the evening's main event: a "Pro American Rally." The organizers had chosen the date in celebration of ...