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.

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

Many working families continue to struggle in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the deepest and longest economic downturn since the Great Depression. In Chi

Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and

The incredible true story of how real people weathered one of the most turbulent periods in American history—the Great Depression—and emerged triumphant. Fr