A rare $10,000 banknote minted during the Great Depression has sold at auction for a record-breaking price. The unusual bill, issued in 1934, features the face of late US president Abraham Lincoln’s ...

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1935. Back in America, Black educator Melva L. Price rallied support for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the ...

While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

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 stable ...

In 2026, American families are once again navigating a challenging economic landscape marked by rising costs and financial uncertainty. Echoing the struggles of the 1920s Great Depression, many are ...

The United States experienced a Great Depression during the 1930s causing one-quarter of its workforce to be unemployed. Although not formally recognized, a growing body of survey evidence indicates ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

Close-up image of a scoop of rocky road ice cream in cone against a dark brown background - Food Arena/Shutterstock The Great Depression was a time of immense hardship, and with financial struggle ...

The 1930s are remembered as one of the toughest eras in American History. The nation was in disarray, banks were shuttered, unemployment had skyrocketed, and food was scarce. We call it the Great ...