Agricultural distress in the 1920s is routinely quoted among the causes of the Great Depression. This article challenges the conventional wisdom. World agriculture was not plagued by overproduction ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: When did the Great Depression start?

What were your grandparents doing in the 1920s and '30s? How did they spend their days and how were they affected by the popular culture? What were their work and domestic lives like? These are the ...

Trump increased tariffs on US imports to the highest levels in nearly a century. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised tariffs and worsened the Great Depression. Prior to the Great Depression, ...

President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global trade war has raised ...

The 1940s was a decade defined by World War II and Indiana was no different. The archive photos below are filled with snapshots that tell the story – new soliders after the country's first peacetime ...

Marilyn Lake has received funding from the Australian Research Council. In her latest book, Australia’s Great Depression, Joan Beaumont offers a deeply conservative history animated by the neoliberal ...