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Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (2009) online; popular history. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N.
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. ... who wrote America's Great Depression (1963). In their view, ...
The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939 (1989) focus on low-growth and high-growth industries Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin , and Eugene N. White, eds. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1998).
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Iinter-war Depression (1989) Davis, Joseph S. The World Between the Wars, 1919–39: An Economist's View (1974) Drinot, Paulo, and Alan Knight, eds. The Great Depression in Latin America (2014) excerpt; Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992 ...
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. Together, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression formed the largest financial crisis of the 20th century. [46] The panic of October 1929 has come to serve as a symbol of the economic contraction that gripped the world during the next decade. [47]
In most respects, April 28, 1942, was much like any other day of the Great Depression era for American markets. "The stock market lacked buying confidence today and leading issues retreated.
During the Depression, a piece of cardboard or a new rubber sole may have extended the wear of a pricey pair, and clothes were certainly mended and patched long before they were ever thrown out.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...