After World War I, Germany owed 132 billion gold Marks in reparations ($2.84 trillion USD). Germany began printing more paper money without gold reserves, which led to hyperinflation. The U.S. 1924 Dawes Plan allowed Germany to restructure reparations and attracted foreign loans. A cultural renaissance, known as the Weimar Renaissance or the Golden Twenties, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s rise and the establishment of the Third Reich.

Through Dorothea Lange’s camera lens, we saw the faces of the forgotten. Her photos visually narrated the struggles of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Japanese internment.

Adolf Hitler’s life from 1907 to 1920 shaped his future political career and the rise of the Nazi Party. 

On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was having tea at a friend’s townhouse on North Washington Square. Seeing this horrendous tragedy led her to work on changing the conditions of the workers. From 1911 to 1915, the New York State Factory Investigating Commission examined factory working conditions and recommended reforms. Under Perkins’ direction, lawmakers passed thirty-six laws, improving workplace safety, fire codes, sanitation, child labor restrictions, and mo