During the Great Depression, African Americans were ... After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the ...

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

The Depression was four years old by 1933, and 1933 had been the worst year to date, with unemployment reaching nearly 25 ...

There’s been a recent effort to brand the White House as “The People’s House,” which seems very wrong since the president is ...

Upon accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, with the country mired in the third year of the Great Depression ...

The Great Depression lasted until 1939 when the US began mobilizing for World War II. The enactment of the New Deal and the ...

President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the "Frances Perkins National Monument" in Newcastle Monday.

The New Deal was a tremendous success, but it would take the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 for the Great Depression to completely end—America’s official entrance into World War II ...

Part of the People’s Century series, Breadline – The Great Depression at Home documents the serious economic ... the film illuminates such events as the stock market crash of 1929, FDR’s New Deal, and ...

Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression. Unlike his predecessor ...

Franklin D Roosevelt was a very popular president. However, as the Great Depression deepened, there was more criticism of the New Deal and Roosevelt’s leadership. A programme of reform like the ...