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

“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

MODESTO, California (CNN)-- The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when ...

the Great Depression began when the US stock market crashed in 1929. Known as Black Thursday, the 1929 crash was attributed in part to a vast imbalance of wealth between the rich and poor ...

poor policy decisions based on stock market speculation and overproduction by businesses resulted in a large-scale economic crisis known as the Great Depression. Its causes aren't entirely ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep ... Working conditions were often poor, but the standard of living climbed for the middle class, which enjoyed innovations ...

A nursery cared for orphaned or abandoned children ... the 130,000 poor farms around the country, Oregon operated at least 17, caring for thousands of residents. With the Great Depression though ...

Many of these are thought to stem from living through World War I (if born early enough) and the Great Depression as children, and then fighting in or living through World War II after that.