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 ...

The American economy had suffered economic downturns and slumps before, but the Great Depression was the worst in the country’s history. It affected more people and lasted much longer.

The federal government under President Herbert Hoover was criticized for a lack of sweeping reforms early in the economic ...

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Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression ... with the American people under which the government would intervene in the economy to try and solve the depression.

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was noteworthy in terms of both its length and its severity.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

The family owned a home and lived a middle class life. Then came the Great Depression, and the era of Mexican repatriation when over 1 million Mexicans and their descendants were forced out of their ...

During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming technical challenges to erect one of the greatest engineering works in history.

One Metro Detroit psychiatrist said the findings of the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is the most thorough study to date on the worsening depression ...