Dox Thrash, "Untitled (Strike)" (c. 1940), watercolor, 17 1/8 x 12 inches; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Museum Purchase (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

President Hoover was not popular during the Great Depression. This one dish was served in soup kitchens to prevent people ...

During the Great Depression, home cooks had to rely on resourcefulness and creativity, but this hardship introduced many ...

On the heels of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that precipitated the decade-long Great Depression, Americans entered the 1930s with trepidation — and without any legal alcohol to endure it with.

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 ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...

Recently I've read, and heard ad nauseam, about "Depression." Come with me back to Greene County Mississippi in 1935: "Miz Agnes, mama said, if you'd send her a little piece o' meat to cook our ...

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 ...