The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

Tennessee, like the rest of the country, was suffering terribly from the effects of the Great Depression. Despite the general impression the 1920s had ... In 1930, 2,284 people were recorded as being ...

Though the U.S. has experienced several recessions, there has only been 1 major depression. Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...

Your new book is called, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times? Could you give us a bird’s eye view of this book?