Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her work during the 1930s with Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Lange studied ...

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

In “The Antidote,” set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s ... woman working for the New Deal agency as a photographer (think Dorothea Lange) — another way to store painful memories, Russell ...

On a raw, soggy day in March 1936, Dorothea Lange was driving home to Berkeley ... an idea he would eventually turn into a book, Dust Bowl Descent. At about the same time, Florence Thompson ...

But even with federal efforts underway, the Dust Bowl continued over the rest of the decade. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, her famous portrait of Florence Owens Thompson taken in 1936 ...