Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at

In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolchildren in man

When Dorothy's father loses his job and cannot find another, the family borrows a car and sets off for Idaho where jobs picking potatoes can be found. This true

On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record

Confronted with starvation, lack of education, and homelessness, children of the Great Depression, like sixteen-year-old Clarence Lee, whose father asked him to