The Great Depression, spanning from 1929 to the late 1930s, was a time of unprecedented economic hardship that affected ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history when unemployment reached 25%. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Americans hadn't felt that level of economic tragedy in a century.

triggering The Great Depression and World War II. The story starts before President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929. His predecessor, President Calvin Coolidge, and his administration took a ...

People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression, as they wait for food on New York’s Lower East Side in 1930. WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression ...

FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (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 farmers and ...