The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, ...

The Brundidge Historical Society’s original folklife play, “Come Home, it’s Suppertime” has long been state recognized as ...

My parents were young during the Great Depression, and they were deeply affected by it. My mother showed me how to tape cardboard in my shoes to make them last longer.

During the peak of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate peaked at 24.9% in 1933 — 12.8 million Americans out of a population of 125.6 million — and it was still as high as 17.2% in 1939 ...

The Great Depression, the 20th century's worst economic disaster, began with the 1929 stock market crash. It spread globally, causing widespread unemployment, bank failures, and poverty.

"The Great Depression was a singular event in our history, so I think it is unlikely that Trump's 25% tariffs lead to an economic calamity on that scale," Witcher said.

Revisits the Great Depression era, profiling outlaws who rose amid economic collapse and became FBI targets, with each episode focusing on a single figure or duo.

The Great Depression began with "Black Tuesday" on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.

It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done — took years and years to get out of that depression.” America’s history of high tariffs actually continued well after 1913, however, and ...