The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...

PORTSMOUTH — One Black family’s tale of life in the old Puddle Dock neighborhood is being revived at Penhallow House, a historic Strawbery Banke Museum 18th century home. The story of ...

William Moyer Colorado Springs, Colo.. My dad started Dartmouth in 1928 as a very well-off Chicago boy but his family went broke. He told me he was lucky to get a job at $25 per week in 1932 with ...

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class ...

As the family grew, they continued to meet every year – even through the Great Depression and World War II. The family says there's so many of them they now have to wear nametags to the reunion.

After surviving the Great Depression, recessions, armed robberies and even riots, a New York City family shoe store now says it has just "months" left before progressive policies force the 130 ...

The family — Jeri and her parents, Eleanor Richardson Cousins Williams and Kenneth Cousins — lived in the Penhallow House from 1937 until 1943, which included the latter end of the Great ...