economic conditions

Highlights the geography, government, cities, currency, people, customs, and culture that make France unique in an increasingly globalized world.

Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression felt not only in North America, but worldwide. Source material, including posters, political cartoons, books, interviews, and articles show the devastation of the resulting mass unemployment, epidemic real estate foreclosures, and crushing poverty of those years.

An account of the stock market crash of 1929.

An exploration of the history of Gaza.

Explores the lives of ordinary North Koreans.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

An introduction to economics for children, explaining the benefits of the free-market economy in the United States, focusing on the use of natural resources in domestic and international commerce.

Examines significant events in the history of the United States, focusing on the progressive movement that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, ushering in social, political, and economic reforms.