Part One, America discovers the modern: The jazz age -- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull -- And then came Ford -- Transformations: New York City -- The view from below: Muncie, Indiana -- ...

The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE GREATEST CRASH IN HISTORY! It’s got me thinking about what could rock stock markets this year.

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking. 592 pages. $35. In March 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed in his inaugural ...

Marian “Happy” Skaggs was born May 28, 1929 in Pratt, Kan. She was the youngest child of Minnie and Clay Skaggs. It was an eventful time for America and west Kansas. The Roaring 20s had subsided, the ...

By Luke Batsirai Today is Monday, 30 October 2023. Exactly 18 years ago to the day, on Sunday, 30 October 2005, my beloved ...

The UK's January Composite PMI index surged to a stronger-than-expected - and a 21-month high - 53.9. Read more here.

Although Smoot practiced monogamy, Washington still vividly remembered the antipolygamy campaigns targeting the church. The ...

"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for ...

There are dates when it is possible to pinpoint when the world changed: ...

Kraft Heinz's declining dominance in the mac and cheese industry has been blamed on cost-cutting and bad management decisions. But the company's biggest challenge is that the rules of indulgence have ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap on strong GDP numbers.