While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...
From 1930 to 1940 America was mired in the Great Depression. Allentown was not completely spared from the national nightmare, ...
The Great Depression of the 1930s is not a time in history that we would want to repeat. Unemployment was high, housing ...
Since the total cost of this meal was a whopping 20 cents back then, it makes sense why everyone was scrambling to make it ...
The Great Depression spanned from 1929 to the beginning of World War II in 1939 and was a period of economic instability and severe hardship. But according to Senior Producer Nicole McLaughlin, "it ...
In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...
Cisco Houston, friend and touring partner of Woody Guthrie, died 65 years ago today from stomach cancer at age 42.
The Great Depression was a challenging time that tested the financial resilience of the middle class. Many found themselves unprepared for the economic downturn, leading to some costly mistakes. By ...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a new round of global tariffs, instituting a minimum 10% levy on goods imported from countries around the world, which he said he hopes will strengthen ...