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 ...

“The Great Depression was pretty well planned.” —Sen. Ron Johnson, when asked about the national debt on a conservative radio show in early September Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, did ...

Through hardship, people form tight communities to support one another. This Great Depression stew is the perfect example of resilience when times get tough.

Simple, sturdy, and delicious: Meatloaf stands as one of the most iconic American meals. For decades, it has served as a dinnertime staple in households across the country. But along with this status ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...