We look at our current crisis now through the lens of American history. Looking Back To The 1930s: Lessons From The Great Depression Looking back to 1930, the year after the start of the Great ...

Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...

From 1930 to 1940 America was mired in the Great Depression. Allentown was not completely spared from the national nightmare, ...

Voters see no end to the economic destruction under President Joe Biden, with most now predicting a 1930s-style Great Depression. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 57% said that they believe the ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “It was an exhilarating period and it gave one new faith in what we call democracy.” ...

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 ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration, which just unveiled the toughest tariffs in almost a century.

During the 1930s, the Great Depression cast a long shadow across America. But life didn’t stop: People worked, danced, built, invented, rebelled, and dreamed of a brighter future. From steelworkers ...

The Great Depression of the 1930s is not a time in history that we would want to repeat. Unemployment was high, housing ...