Living With Debt During the Great Depression, many middle-class families were shouldering consumer debt. They couldn’t keep up with the repayments once the economy tanked and their jobs were lost.

Living With Debt During the Great Depression, many middle-class families were shouldering consumer debt. They couldn’t keep up with the repayments once the economy tanked and their jobs were lost.

During the Great Depression and in gold rush times, people travelling country roads in search of work, food or just a place to sleep the night, used a secret code of symbols to communicate the 'lie 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 ...

I should have done it, in other words, the hobo way. For as long as there have been trains in America, there have been so-called hobos, transient people, jumping on to them to get around.

During the Great Depression, people didn’t always have a choice about what was available for them to eat. Many people had to turn to alternative food sources. One of the common alternatives included ...

These Roadside Attractions in Indiana are perfect for anyone who loves adventure—and a good picture to prove it!

Before, normally the economy had been growing at 4, 5, or 6 percent per year. This is to account in “GDP” terms, the statistic invented in the Depression for just the purpose we are about here.

My great-grandfather was a United Methodist minister, so he and his family, Aunt Mary included, moved around, eventually settling in West Texas. “The church was behind on paying Daddy’s salary,” Aunt ...

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...