— -- The financial crisis has made Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's book Essays on the Great Depression a hot seller — at least by academic standards. Princeton University Press has sold ...

Author Andrew Ross Sorkin, skilled at writing about America’s financial history, tackles the Great Depression in his new book ...

Every generation has a catalog of books they read, either while growing up or while attending school. Many books are essential reading for generations. These particular classics that all Baby Boomers ...

“1929,” by the New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a tale of greed, corruption and incompetence to shock the conscience. By Zachary D. Carter Zachary D. Carter is a nonresident fellow at ...

A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...

A new book by the Montana Historical Society Press finds inspiration for the human spirit amidst the depression of hard times. "Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942" provides ...

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Maximilian Alvarez: It is a true honor to be in conversation with the great Dana Frank, whose CV runs a mile long. But I just wanted to ...

Want to understand depression? Here are the ten books I recommend most strongly: Manufacturing Depression: The secret history of a modern disease. Greenberg, G. (2010). An excellent book on how the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...