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 ...

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.

Decline in economic output, 1929 to 1933: 27 percent New Deal-sparked increase in economic output, 1933 to 1936: 36 percent Bank failures: 4,004 in January and February 1933 ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and national ...

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 ...