Boomers and Gen Xers share the frugal habits they learned from relatives who lived through the Great Depression.

The Great Depression, which took hold after the stock market crash of October 1929, didn't just drain bank accounts. It ...

Ingredients were scarce during the Great Depression, leading people to find creative ways to fuel their hunger. Here are ...

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 ...

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 always seems to play out to us in black and white. Images are seared in our collective history — from ...

Explore 17 rare photos of wealthy Americans during the Great Depression, revealing how the affluent lived amid economic ...

More than half a decade into the Great Depression, an Indiana commentator published a sad little profile of his fellow ...

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 ...

A family tends to what flock it has in St. Louis' Hooverville in August 1932, during the worst of the Great Depression.  On ...

Liberal historians have long argued that even during the Great Depression, the allegedly Red Decade, most Americans remained broadly loyal to the capitalist political economy. Supposedly, even the ...