# Great Depression
How Hoover and America Handled the Onset of the Great Depression
In the first week of September, 1929, stock prices in the United States began a steady and steep decline. The downward slide resulted in a crash near the end of October, ending…
Greed Created These Horrific Financial Crises
Before economists coined the terms recession and the more foreboding depression to describe economic downturns such events were called panics.…
How FDR Created Jobs and Saved America’s Natural Treasures through the Civilian Conservation Corps
In 1933, as part of the New Deal instituted by the Roosevelt Administration to help lift the nation out of…
30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the most severe economic decline in modern history. Sparked by the stock market crash of 1929,…
The Sodder Children Vanished Christmas Eve 1945, and the Police Still Have No Idea what Happened
George Sodder, born Giorgio Soddu in Sardinia, emigrated to the United States in 1908 with his older brother. He settled…
18 Successes and Disasters Created to Battle the Great Depression
The period of economic downturn known as the Great Depression began when the New York Stock Exchange began to drop…
The Stories Behind 16 of History’s Most Influential and Remarkable Photos
The invention of photography, widely considered to date to 1826, changed history and the preservation of moments thereof. As the…
10 Strange Pastimes which People from Previous Generations Enjoyed
Just like us, people of yesteryear tried to alleviate the boredom and humdrum existence of everyday life with various pastimes.…
These Roving Criminals Terrorized the Plains during the 1930s
From the end of the Roaring Twenties through the Great Depression, America’s middle west was plagued by roving criminal gangs,…
Heartbreaking Photographs Reveal America was Built on the Shoulders of Child Labor
“They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on…