Many people today are unfamiliar with the term “Great Depres­sion” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...

John B. Judis is a senior editor of The New Republic and a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In the 1930s, as the world plunged into depression, there were two ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...

For well over a century, Black women in the United States have been at the forefront of the struggle for human rights. During the Great Depression, for example, African American educator Melva L.