During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Roosevelt’s CCC put 3 million young men to work across America. Living in camps across all 48 states (and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto ...

BUFFALO GAP, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Just south of Abilene sits one of the Big Country’s most historic outdoor destinations, ...

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 ...

A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) trunk helps tell the story of the New Deal. The Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC, was one of the programs started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

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.

Unemployment, 1929: 3.2 percent Unemployment, 1933: 25 percent Decline in economic output, 1929 to 1933: 27 percent New Deal-sparked increase in economic output, 1933 to 1936: 36 percent Bank failures ...

The Great Depression of the 1930’s marked an era in which record unemployment rate of 25 percent and a higher poverty rate cast economic ruin upon many Americans, including residents of eastern ...