Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

East Texas, the 1930s—the Great Depression. Award-winning author Jonah Winter's father grew up with seven siblings in a tiny house on the edge of town. In thi

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record

No area of the United States was untouched by the Great Depression, but the severity in which people experienced those significant years depended in large part

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individual