Hoovervilles sprouted up across the US during the Great Depression. One in Central Park was also called "Hoover Valley" or "Forgotten Men's Gulch." ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%.

During the Great Depression, more than 5,000 of the dispossessed drifted toward a Midwest version of world's end — the flood-prone land along the Mississippi River. They lived in shacks ...

They says that necessity is the mother of innovation, and that was certainly the case with some of the dinner recipes popularized during the Great Depression.

Hoovervilles sprouted up across the US during the Great Depression. One in Central Park was also called "Hoover Valley" or "Forgotten Men's Gulch." ...

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...

The claim that American incomes are lower now than during the Great Depression — the longest, deepest economic downturn in U.S. history — is false and ridiculous.

During the Great Depression, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles," began to sprout up across the US. Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were made up of scraps of wood, tin, tar, and ...