As thousands of workers pushed rails across mountains and deserts, they needed food that could travel. These simple meat pies ...

When Franklin Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, he wasted little time getting down to business. The sweeping changes he made would help steer the country out of the Depression and back to work.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Marie Kilkinney is 96 years old and a newly published author. Her book, Four in a Tub: A Memoir, chronicles her childhood during the Great Depression as one of 20 siblings — ...

Depression in older adults may sometimes signal the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. Researchers found that depression often appears years before diagnosis and remains ...

The federal budget deficit was roughly 6 percent of gross domestic product for each of the past three fiscal years. During a three-year span of low unemployment, economic expansion, increasing revenue ...

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking. 592 pages. $35. In March 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed in his inaugural ...

Annette Dionne died at a hospital in Canada on Wednesday, Dec. 24, according to a family spokesperson Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work ...

Christmas of 1930 promised to be a dreary one in Autaugaville, Ala. It had been just over a year since the stock market crash officially started the Great Depression, but hard times began months ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Maine was not too poor to be affected by the Great Depression, which began ...