From our Revolution to the Civil War, to the
Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history.
"Certainly, Bronsfield, there is a
great depression," said Captain Blomsberry.
I waited her coming stiffly, in
great depression of spirits, and noted that her first attentions were for David, who, somewhat shabbily, gave her the end of a smile which had been begun for me.
At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in
great depression at the fire.
This was in a season of
great depression, when I began to feel in broken health the effect of trying to burn my candle at both ends.
No sooner, however, was he inside than a
great depression descended upon him.
I did so, and the answers I received were always provokingly limited to the letter of the inquiry: she was much as usual: she made no complaints, but the tone of her last letter evinced
great depression of mind: she said she was better: and, finally, she said she was well, and very busy with her son's education, and with the management of her late husband's property, and the regulation of his affairs.
The global financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession raised concerns about adjustment fatigue, deflation, currency wars, and secular stagnation that presented a sense of deja vu: similar concerns had arisen at the time of the
Great Depression and at the end of World War II.
The
Great Depression and the New Deal: Key Themes and Documents
The Little Girl Who Fought the
Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America.
The
Great Depression for Kids: Hardship and Hope in 1930s America.
Black Tuesday and the
Great Depression (Uncovering the Past: Analyzing Primary Sources)