Great Depression – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:52:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Great Depression – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Tariff Escalation and the Collapse of Global Trade after the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/tariff-escalation-and-the-collapse-of-global-trade-after-the-great-depression/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:46:10 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=270121 When walls become systems, they redefine the architecture of exchange. Reversing them requires more than lowering duties; it

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]]> Smoot–Hawley: Tariffs, Trade Collapse, and the Deepening of the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/smoot-hawley-tariffs-trade-collapse-and-the-deepening-of-the-great-depression/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:21:31 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267180 Trade barriers did not initiate collapse, but they hardened it, extending suffering and delaying recovery across continents. By

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]]> Unemployment in the Great Depression: Labor Collapse, Relief, and Recovery https://brewminate.com/unemployment-in-the-great-depression-labor-collapse-relief-and-recovery/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:01:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266036 The crisis of unemployment during the Great Depression transformed the relationship between American workers and the federal government.

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]]> Collapse and Recovery: A History of the Great Depression in the 1930s https://brewminate.com/collapse-and-recovery-a-history-of-the-great-depression-in-the-1930s/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:08:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=226465 How this turbulent decade ushered in a new era for labor, culture, and government. Government Response F.D.R. Didn’t

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]]> The Kept and the Killed: Edited Photographic Documentation of the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/the-kept-and-the-killed-edited-photographic-documentation-of-the-great-depression/ Wed, 04 May 2022 14:12:13 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=170671 Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the FSA to document the Great Depression, over a third were “killed”.

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]]> Americans and Isolationism during the Great Depression of the 1930s https://brewminate.com/americans-and-isolationism-during-the-great-depression-of-the-1930s/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:11:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=135924 A worldwide economic depression and domestic problems bolstered the idea that the U.S. should isolate itself from events

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]]> Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/causes-and-consequences-of-the-great-depression/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:05:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=132500 Many factors, including World War I and its aftermath, set the stage for this economic disaster. Factors Leading

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]]> The Great Depression: Farms and Cities in the 1930s https://brewminate.com/the-great-depression-farms-and-cities-in-the-1930s/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:41:56 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=122324 By Tom MorainHistorian Introduction Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began

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]]> Unimagined Lows: The Depths of the Great Depression https://brewminate.com/unimagined-lows-the-depths-of-the-great-depression/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:49:29 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=68731 The country’s most vulnerable populations were the hardest hit. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.27.2018 Historian Brewminate

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