While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

Herbert Hoover served as president through the first years of the Depression and was commonly seen as doing little to alleviate the country's problems. As a result, the name Hoover became a byword for ...

Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did ...

The Great Depression stands as the most devastating economic crisis in modern history. It began in 1929 when the rapid growth of the Roaring Twenties abruptly collapsed, plunging the world into more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Depression is remembered as one of the most difficult periods in American history. In 1933 alone, nearly 13 million ...

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 ...