In 1931, corn was scarce because of drought, so the Corn Palace mural designer William Kearney used painted canvases. The festival called "Hello Prosperity Revue" was designed to make everyone forget ...

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The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in modern history, fundamentally reshaping the global economy. What ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic disaster of the 20th century, starting with the 1929 stock market crash and causing global unemployment, bank failures, and widespread poverty.

During the Great Depression, many middle-class families were shouldering consumer debt. They couldn’t keep up with the repayments once the economy tanked and their jobs were lost.

3. Cooking at home. Just Life | Shutterstock. Cooking at home and learning how to make home-cooked meals is one of the frugal habits Gen Z is borrowing from the Great Depression era. According to ...

By the late 1920s, they had expanded operations to Shanghai, producing two dozen films before the Great Depression brought this chapter to a close. Not content to disappear from the cultural landscape ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.

The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...