HARTFORD, Conn. -- An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. It was the ...

Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.

Decline in economic output, 1929 to 1933: 27 percent New Deal-sparked increase in economic output, 1933 to 1936: 36 percent Bank failures: 4,004 in January and February 1933 ...

The Great Depression of the 1930’s marked an era in which record unemployment rate of 25 percent and a higher poverty rate cast economic ruin upon many Americans, including residents of eastern ...

The Great Depression gouged a swath of misery through the United States in the 1930s. In places such as Montana, a severe drought during the 1920s was a cruel precursor to the deprivations of the ...