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 ...

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...