It's an important day of primaries and caucuses in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island. And since here at NPR we take a break from reporting on the candidates on an election day. This morning we ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of people in the United States during a time of great ...
Using 1929 data, the two researchers calculated what wages and prices would have been had without the New Deal, and then compared them to actual wages and prices at the time. Their findings were ...
Newsweek published its list of top presidential attractions as voted on by readers. Coming in at No. 2 is Grant Cottage State ...
The article traces the history and importance of financial regulation in the U.S., emphasizing the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in protecting investors and ensuring market ...
Guess who said the following: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work." Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even close. It ...
FDR’s story is tempting to novelize, as Jonathan Darman does, in portentous prose: “Destiny was indeed a mysterious thing; Franklin Roosevelt had learned that long ago. As a young man, cosseted in his ...
When the United States was deep in the grip of the Great Depression, families across the country needed comfort. They wanted something familiar at the dinner table that didn’t drain already tight ...
Eleanor Roosevelt served as First Lady during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's historic four-term presidency, the majority of which was during the Great Depression. With an eye on being economical, ...
Who was the last great president of the United States? Well, if you're not on Social Security, you wouldn't be old enough to have seen one, says author Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the ...
At least, that's what they're saying over at Fox News: The Depression issue was brought up by conservative pundit Monica Crowley - not surprising since this is the conservative talking point du jour ...