The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and ...

From Dust Bowl epics to rousing comeback tales, these films paint the era's grit through unforgettable characters.

I have studied quite extensively the stock market crash of October 1929, and the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed, for a book I am writing on crisis forecasting. I recently noticed that the ...

The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and ended around 1939, is the longest and most severe U.S. economic downturn in modern history. The 1920s in the U.S. became known as the Roaring '20s, ...

The Great Depression was a landmark event that had lasting economic, social, and political repercussions, some of which are still with us nearly a century later. Learn more about the Great Depression ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of Congress ...