This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Maximilian Alvarez: It is a true honor to be in conversation with the great Dana Frank, whose CV runs a mile long. But I just wanted to ...

The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...

The Great Depression wasn’t just a rough patch — it was an economic freefall that left millions struggling to survive. Sparked by the 1929 stock market crash and worsened by bank failures, job losses, ...

Sherman Brown was 19 and in his first year of marriage and starting a family when the stock market collapse in 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. While many commentators, including President-elect ...

While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...