SNAP Benefits: U.S. Faces ‘Greatest Hunger Crisis Since the Great Depression’

Due to the ongoing government shutdown, the prospect of November's SNAP benefits going unpaid indefinitely is growing closer.

This Day in History: Stock market crash triggers the Great Depression on Oct. 29, 1929

When combined with the agricultural decline worldwide, the resulting loss of confidence in the banking and investment ...

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...
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8 Timeless Recipes Born From The Great Depression, Cultural Researchers Explain

The Political Meal That Fed Families Herbert Hoover served as president through the first years of the Depression and was ...
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From fur traders to freighters: How Great Lakes storms shaped shipwreck history

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...