6 foods families really ate during the Great Depression

Depression-era families got creative with ingredients as they struggled to make ends meet.

Where the Great Depression hit America hardest, mapped

The Great Depression hit one region especially hard, and a historic drought made matters even worse.
PBS

When Did the Great Depression Start? - And Why That Matters

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 ...
Associated Press

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

During the Great Depression, This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1935. Back in America, Black educator Melva L. Price rallied support for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the ...
New York Post

How the American spirit really survived the Great Depression

More than half a decade into the Great Depression, an Indiana commentator published a sad little profile of his fellow American. “Who is the ‘forgotten man’ in ...
theepochtimes

The Dreams of Children: Christmas During the Great Depression

Search online for “Great Depression Christmas,” and you’ll find numerous histories and personal recollections of that holiday when the United States was in the depths of the longest, ugliest financial ...