Consider the following four mistakes the middle class made during the Great Depression. Are you making the same ones? It’s now common knowledge that we all need to have an emergency fund.

The Gulgong Symbol Trail comprises around 70 tiles, placed in a random 'swaggering' pattern throughout Mayne Street and Coronation Park. During the Great Depression and in gold ... and gypsies of ...

Today the word “hobo” is usually used in a derogatory manner, but back in the time between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Great Depression, it referred to a specific group of ...

By the turn of the 20th century, there were about a million hobos on America’s rails. That number went up to around 1.5 million in the Great Depression ... San Francisco during the Thatcher ...

After the onset of Great Depression and the Dust Bowl ... At Colorado Springs we took pictures of Pike's Peak. Monday we painted signs "Oregon or bust!" on the back and right side of the truck and ...

Food author Geri Clouston says that there were times the hobos would add lint for flavor. Red velvet cake may seem like a normal dessert option today, but it was something most had never seen before ...

This is to account in “GDP” terms, the statistic invented in the Depression for just the purpose we are about here. Over eleven years, the latter seven or eight of them devoted to New Deal the ...

To get some perspective, I called up my great aunt Mary. When she was about five years ... compared with 20 percent to 25 percent during the Depression. There were no unemployment benefits, Social ...

With the promise of government soup kitchens at many railroad junctions, migrant workers poured into and out of Minnesota and North Dakota during the Great Depression from 1929 to 1939.

The sting of the Great Depression in Minnesota began before the dust storms and clouds of grasshoppers arrived throughout the Midwest. Spurred by World War I demand that brought great affluence ...