Babb’s observations of rural poverty, particularly during the Depression and the Dust Bowl, would filter through the ...

During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created his New Deal Program. It comprised a number of works ...

The New Deal began in Great Depression. It protects us today. First, income security, by providing America’s workers with a minimum wage, collective bargaining rights, and earned benefits like ...

Sure, you may have legitimate concerns about what new leadership may do. Sure, it’s important for all U.S. citizens to be vigilant about what any political leader does. Sure, it doesn’t take ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt got the New Deal and Social Security passed during the Depression and Lyndon B. Johnson was responsible ...

Within a year the Great Depression came and we lost everything − the house, my father’s business, etc. I still remember being homeless and hungry as a toddler. Joe Biden's 'New Deal':American ...

Social trust is plummeting. As the internet, smartphones and social media have made it possible for anyone to disseminate any ...

Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington discuss playwright August Wilson's rhythm and universality, their Grammy-winning co-star, and more.

I assume this was a Depression ... of the Great Depression. It was one of roughly 200 camps operated by the Federal Transient Service, a short-lived and often-overlooked New Deal agency that ...

Jared Sullivan explores how the TVA has repeatedly downplayed the dangers of coal ash to the public’s detriment.

But by the morning of November 6th Donald Trump had won the White House and his party had secured a majority in the Senate.

The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands — but most lasted ...