The market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, which would shape American life for the following decade.

The American spirit survived the Great Depression by being built on community, mutual aid, and hard-won ingenuity. The post ...

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 ...

Explore 17 rare photos of wealthy Americans during the Great Depression, revealing how the affluent lived amid economic ...

Recessions and depressions are periods of significant decline in economic activity. But there's no exact definition for either one. We've only had one depression in modern times: the Great Depression, ...

Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did ...

As far as economic events go, true depressions are rare. Over the last century, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the only economic downturn in the U.S. that earned the distinction of being ...

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 ...

The American economy is reopening. In Alabama, gyms are back in business. In Georgia, restaurants are seating customers again. In Texas, the bars are packed. And in Vermont, the stay-at-home order has ...

A family tends to what flock it has in St. Louis' Hooverville in August 1932, during the worst of the Great Depression.  On ...