COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s State Park system owes much of its heritage to one of America’s most challenging moments. In the throes of the Great Depression, many struggled to find work and make ends ...

Young workers - jobless in the midst of a devastating economic quagmire - were paid by the government to build roads, trails and shelters in a park near Tucson. So it was about 75 years ago with the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. It was the ...

Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.

The Great Depression of the 1930’s marked an era in which record unemployment rate of 25 percent and a higher poverty rate cast economic ruin upon many Americans, including residents of eastern ...

The Great Depression gouged a swath of misery through the United States in the 1930s. In places such as Montana, a severe drought during the 1920s was a cruel precursor to the deprivations of the ...