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 ...

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 ...

One vintage pie flavor arose out of the Great Depression, turning a slate of utterly basic ingredients into a tasty if decidedly unusual treat.

MANKATO — Some might have considered them luxury items, what with it being the Great Depression. As 98-year-old Evelyn Ellingboe Horwath remembers it, her family’s Maytag washing machine, Singer ...

The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...

The Great Depression stands as the most devastating economic crisis in modern history. It began in 1929 when the rapid growth of the Roaring Twenties abruptly collapsed, plunging the world into more ...

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At first, theater owners wanted nothing to do with the noisy snack. But then came the Great Depression.