The Great Depression taught an entire generation how to live with less, adapt quickly, and make do with what they had. These ...

The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families ...

Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie and Marie Dionne spent most of their childhoods in an Ontario compound known as Quintland. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the early morning hours of May 28, ...

Steaming cup of coffee surrounded by coffee beans - Nicoleta83Parvu/Shutterstock The Great Depression was an interesting time for food. What was considered one of the ...

The 1930s are remembered as one of the toughest eras in American History. The nation was in disarray, banks were shuttered, unemployment had skyrocketed, and food was scarce. We call it the Great ...

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1935. Back in America, Black educator Melva L. Price rallied support for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the ...