Tomato soup cake first appeared in cookbooks in the early 1920s, though according to Atlas Obscura, no one knows who thought ...

(The soup kitchens were shut down a couple of years later, replaced by city-funded meal tickets to local restaurants.) The U.S. Census reported that, by April, Milwaukee's unemployed totaled 15,916.

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...