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Great Depression

The economic collapse of the 1930s and the presidential response to it.

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Jan 18, 2026
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Why is communism considered far left & fascism considered far right?

Communism is classed on the far left because its core theory aims to abolish private property and create economic equality through collective ownership and the suppression of market capitalism, while ...

Jan 11, 2026
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What were the official U.S. unemployment rates by year from 1929 to 1936 according to BLS and historical reconstructions?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reconstructed annual unemployment series for 1929–1939—published in a 1948 technical note and later loaded into BLS databases—provides the “official” annual unemploymen...

Jan 18, 2026
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What do historians identify as early warning signs of democratic backsliding based on Weimar Germany?

Historians reading the collapse of Weimar Germany identify a set of early warning signs that recur in democratic backsliding: the politicization and manipulation of emergencies, erosion of democratic ...

Jan 10, 2026

Has any U.S. president ever attempted to delay a federal election?

No U.S. president has ever successfully delayed a scheduled federal election; the country has never postponed a presidential election and legal experts say a president has no unilateral authority to d...

Feb 4, 2026

Which presidents have historians most tied to causing mass human suffering, and how are those assessments made?

Historians most frequently tie -of-us-presidents">mass human suffering to presidents who mismanaged existential crises, upheld or expanded institutions of slavery, or pursued policies that produced la...