# Great Depression
20 Tragic Photos from America’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s
The Dust Bowl was a series severe dust storms that affected 100,000,000 acres of the American prairie caused by drought…
Today in History: Franklin Roosevelt Signs the GI Bill into Law (1944)
After World War I, there was a lot of debate about the bonuses that returning veterans should receive in the…
A Notorious Gangster Started One of the First Soup Kitchens in America During the Great Depression
The famed boss of the New England mafia, Raymond Patriarca, conducted his business from outside of a money changing shop…
Today in History: Huge Dust Storm Disrupts the United States (1934)
There were many causes of the Great Depression. No economic disaster of that magnitude ever has a single cause. It…
FDR Survived an Assassination Attempt. You Won’t Believe What He Did Next.
Franklin Roosevelt found out just a few days before he took the oath of office in 1933 that the Presidency is…
FDR: The Greatest President Ever?
Humans have a habit of ranking things. If there is more than one of something, we want to know, which…
This Day In History: Charles Lindbergh Calls For A U.S. Pact with Hitler (1941)
On this day, in 1941 the great American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He…
This Day In History: A Huge Dust Storm In South Dakota (1935).
On this day in 1935, a powerful storm strips South Dakota of much of its topsoil. The state had suffered…