What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who Americans Are

🫧 Open on Bubbles Derek Thompson wrote one of the most interesting things I've read lately. One hundred years ago, on September 26, 1929, President Herbert Hoover gathered a group of social scientists at the White House. He asked them to begin research on the most detailed report ever produced on the state of the nation. Four years later, running more than 1,500 pages long, Recent Social Trends was published, offering an unusually granular look at life in the mid-1920s. America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Y