During the Great Depression, home cooks were challenged with using limited resources to feed their families. Although they ...

Study: Life expectancy rose, mortality dropped during Great Depression Opposite happened during surrounding times of economic expansion, study shows Study examined population health from 1920 to 1940 ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%.

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...

My teeth say a lot about me — and my family's life during the Great Depression For a long time in my family, it has been a privilege to be able to afford to take care of our teeth ...

PORTSMOUTH — One Black family’s tale of life in the old Puddle Dock neighborhood is being revived at Penhallow House, a historic Strawbery Banke Museum 18th century home. The story of ...

The Penhallow House, a historic home in Portsmouth, is being restored to reflect the life of the Cousins family, a Black family who lived there during the Great Depression. Geraldine “Jeri ...

A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally ...

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...