“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? “By 1933 a ...
Tennessee, like the rest of the country, was suffering terribly from the effects of the Great Depression. Despite the general impression the 1920s had been a decade of plenty and prosperity, that was ...
Though the U.S. has experienced several recessions, there has only been 1 major depression. Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...