President Donald Trump announced a new round of global tariffs, instituting a minimum 10% levy on goods imported from ...

Congress passed a bill sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon to raise import duties on 20,000 goods to protect American farmers and businesses.

As demand declined, big business and agriculture, feeling the effect of cheap goods from abroad, lobbied for protection. The role of trade tariffs in the Great Depression negatively impacted the ...

President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the... President Trump's new tariffs on Canada ...

In this era of despair, the agricultural regions of the American ... “The Migrant Mother” quickly became a symbol of the Great Depression, capturing the attention and sympathy of the public.