After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—faced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign.

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 ...

The economy showed some recovery, but the rebound was far too weak for the New Deal's policies to be deemed successful in pulling America out of the Great Depression. Historians and economists ...

The Great Depression soon achieved a depth and duration unparalleled ... Domestically, FDR switched from “Dr. New Deal” to “Dr. Win the War,” organizing the armed forces and establishing America as ...

The NRA was one of the early cornerstones of Roosevelt’s New Deal, aimed at alleviating the economic effects of the Great Depression and putting people back to work. The Depression was four ...

The Great Depression lasted until 1939 when the US began mobilizing for World War II. The enactment of the New Deal and the increased wartime spending helped the US economy to recover as countries ...

Baseball at Night by Russian-born Morris Kantor depicts a dusty contest in West Nyack, New York ... will not go down in history as the First Great Depression. Unemployment was close to 25 percent ...

“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

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 ...