While most people may not think of coffee as a base for a filling meal, it became an important staple during the era of the ...

A new exhibition focuses on Black Southerners documented by photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the ...

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration, later called the ...

America's history of high tariffs actually continued well after 1913, however, and Trump's take on what sparked the Great Depression — and Hoover-era Washington's response to it — don't ...

The 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression: The most severe drop in U.S. history occurred after the stock market peaked in August 1929.