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Graphic created by my father Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) confides in the introduction to his travel memoir Puzzled America (1935) that the Great Depression...

(Republished from theburningplatform.com). “At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will...

Nov 14, 2025 - When the banks put farmers’ homes and land up for auction, their neighbors would arrive already committed to keep the price low. They would bid next to...

This book applies Austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 Great Depression. Rothbard first summarizes the Austrian theory and

Dec 16, 2024

Jan 19, 2021 - The Great Depression was a severe, global economic depression lasting from 1929 to approximately 1939.

The Great Depression severely affected every segment of the U.S. economy, and it created programs that prevent depressions from reoccurring.

Jun 16, 2020 - Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography.

The longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy lasted more than a decade, beginning in 1929 and ending...

A new history clears the air on what worsened, and what eased, the macroeconomic crisis.

Annette Dionne, the last of the famous quintuplets born at the height of the Great Depression, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease on Wednesday,...

Great Depression: *noun*; global economic collapse; in the USA, this began in 1929 and persisted to 1939; most other industrialized countries emerged from...