See the staple foods and inventive meals that sustained families during the Great Depression, from homemade breads to ...

As the Great Post-Communist Depression continued through the 1990s, UN agencies began documenting its deleterious effects on the health and wellbeing of the affected populations and grew ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.

Today, we use that event to mark the Great Depression’s beginning. But at the time, people didn’t know they were in a depression or even a recession. Most economists expected a quick recovery.

Students of the Great Depression of the 1930s will note that at the outset of this horrible event, property taxes increased beyond all precedent and rationality.

In these clips, he lectures students about the effects of tariffs during the Great Depression. Here is what to know about what caused the Great Depression. Was it caused by tariffs? The Great ...