During the Great Depression, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles," began to sprout up across the US. Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were made up of scraps of wood, tin, tar, and ...
The reenactment of “Hooverville,” hosted by the Amherst Historical Society on Sept. 6, gave visitors a taste of what it was like during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. For the third year in a row, ...
Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s, the ...
Students take part in the 7th annual Hooverville event at J.P. McCaskey High School on Monday, November 24, 2019. The Hooverville at McCaskey teaches students about the shanty towns that popped up ...
During the administration of President Herbert Hoover, 1929 to 1933, a crisis of housing occurred due to unlivable low wages, a shortage of affordable housing and an enormous gap between the rich and ...
In Mr. Renfer’s English class the sixth grade students read the classic, Bud, Not Buddy, a story of an orphaned boy at the time of the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, many families lost ...
EJ Antoni is a public finance economist and the Richard F. Aster research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. When people couldn’t afford housing ...
The production designer of "Perry Mason" tells IndieWire how the economic diversity of '30s L.A. found its fullest expression in the Hooverville set. In the headings for his lookbook, Cunningham found ...
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