The Great Depression, spanning from 1929 to the late 1930s, was a time of unprecedented economic hardship that affected ...

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As a child growing up on a hard-scrabble 160 acre homestead farm and beginning marriage during the depths of the Great Depression, she learned early to 'waste not.'" Also called simply Grand ...

At the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, a new exhibition has gathered together 17 historic flags that ...

Jeff Ficek continues his Spirit of '76 series with this fourth installment, exploring the men behind America’s founding.

Many of the stocks that rose during the Great Depression were defense stocks like Electric Boat, now a defense subsidiary of General Dynamics (NASDAQ: GD). This was because the U.S. was gearing up ...

JP Morgan Asset Management Executive Director Kerry Craig comments on the Dow Jones' worst month since the Great Depression of 1932, claiming Australian investors are seeking “defensive ...

Two months after the 1929 stock market crash, Milwaukee's leaders figured they'd dodged a bullet. They found out quickly they were wrong. Faced with protests demanding relief for the city's ...

However, the depths of the Great Depression and a favorable Congress gave Roosevelt the political environment to move quickly. The 73rd Congress passed 15 major pieces of legislation during ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Great Depression had begun and the stock market ... Vietnam and the European Union. He pitched it as a patriotic effort to restore sovereignty and rebuild industry. As we know, the fallout was ...