While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

When you hear about the Great Depression, certain iconic images probably flash through your mind—long breadlines, dusty ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

Rosie the Riveter became the female hero of World War II, a symbol of those women who took on vacant male-oriented jobs and played a valuable role in the war effort. But only a few years before, she ...