Compared to the roaring ’20s, where glamour and excess ruled all, the early 1930s were marked by hardship and uncertainty. Reeling from the Great Depression, people all across the country — rich and ...

Thoughts of the Great Depression most often conjure up images of gloom and despair, soup kitchens, or transients looking for any kind of work. Perhaps it was too early yet to feel the worst of its ...

See photos from 1930s in Louisville. From Franklin Roosevelt's visit to the flooding in 1937, see what life was like in the Derby City 90 years ago.

HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...

Recently I've read, and heard ad nauseam, about "Depression." Come with me back to Greene County Mississippi in 1935: "Miz Agnes, mama said, if you'd send her a little piece o' meat to cook our ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

On the heels of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that precipitated the decade-long Great Depression, Americans entered the 1930s with trepidation — and without any legal alcohol to endure it with.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

The 1930s are remembered as one of the toughest eras in American History. The nation was in disarray, banks were shuttered, unemployment had skyrocketed, and food was scarce. We call it the Great ...