Great Depression

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Looking back

A look back at the Great Depression.
Food during the Great Depression

Sam Barnhill remembers sharing crops with neighbors to get by during the Depression.
Unemployment during the Great Depression

Economist Sandra Peart talks about unemployment rates during the depression and how they compare with today's rates.
Credit during the Great Depression

Professor Nigel Sellars talks about credit problems in the 1930's and today.
Transportation during the Great Depression

Sam Barnhill remembers his father moving the family from LaGrange, TX to Edna, TX in an old Model T Ford.
Great Depression Videos

Click any of the videos above for a look at the comparisons and contrasts of today's economic
meltdown and the financial collapse of 1929 and the Depression that followed.

Listen to first-hand accounts of what life was like during the depression era
and how families survived.

Learn what meal time consisted of during the Great Depression.

Voices of the Great Depression

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