By Paul S. George, Ph.D. The population of the United States grew from 123 million in 1930 to 132 million in 1940, a 7.3 percent increase, which represented the nation’s lowest rate of growth for any decade before or since. Clearly, the weak growth was one of the ramifications of the Great Depression, as people […]
By Paul S. George, Ph.D. The collapse of the stock market in October 1929 ushered in the Great Depression and brought an abrupt end to America’s Jazz Age. The Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in American history, was marked by massive bank failures, factory closings, rampant joblessness, deflation and a growing despair among the […]
By Paul S. George, Ph.D. The momentum that underlined seemingly all elements of Miami in the early 1900s only grew in intensity as the century’s second decade unfolded. Perhaps the most striking example here was the enormous population growth of Miami, growth assisted by the annexation of areas formerly outside of the city limits, causing […]
By Paul S. George, Ph.D. The early months and years following the city of Miami’s incorporation in 1896 were filled with promise and growth. By summer’s end, 1896, the new city already had a moniker: the “Magic City,” a name given it by Ethan V. Blackman, a publicist, ordained minister and writer who had never […]
By Paul S. George, PhD. For many years, “Miami,” a place name used here to describe all of vast, sprawling Miami-Dade County, was dismissed as being too “young” to possess a history since its flagship city and the county seat, the City of Miami, was only incorporated in 1896, thus ranking it among the youngest […]
