The New York Times Company has compiled a list of newspaper articles published around the time of the crash of 1929.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, massive oil discoveries in Texas, alongside falling global demand for energy, sent oil prices tumbling downwards.

Economists usually work with large samples of data, so they are in a bind when it comes to depressions: there simply haven’t been enough to yield predictable patterns. When the world stood on the precipice in 2008, its leaders had only the 1930s as a template.

Since the start of what some now call the “Great Recession” in 2007, economists have been unable to avoid comparing it with the Depression of the early 1930s. For some, the comparisons are explicit.

When Herbert Hoover signed the Tariff Act of 1930 into law, he could scarcely have imagined that it would live on in the public imagination eight decades later.

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in American History. This video briefly explains why it happened, and shows how it affected the American people.

A collection of photos from The Great Depression.

This government archive site contains 11 pictures from The Great Depression.

A compilation of 11 podcasts on various aspects of The Great Depression from the Gilder Lehman Institutes of American History.