User-Created Clip by zlowe October 16, 2023 2023-10-14T15:45:20-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ca9/1697481066.jpgCleo Redd Fisher Museum Curator Kenny Libben ...

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.

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 ...

In the throes of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed the establishment of a Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, to put unemployed young men back to work in natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...