In “Against the Grain,” journalist Roger Thurow documents how Green Revolution farming techniques have created an ...

President Donald Trump is either blissfully unaware or simply doesn’t care that the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, ...

As the Trump administration is set to cross the 100-day mark, here's a look at how we came to judge new presidents.

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs didn’t save agriculture. Trump’s tariffs probably won’t save manufacturing.

Hawley, aimed to safeguard US agricultural interests in the wake of the 1929 stock ... This further aggravated the Great ...

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

Yet agriculture lagged behind the country as ... couldn’t have started the Great Depression, since Hoover signed it into law in June of 1930, after the market crash the previous year.

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29 ... Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs. But a chief goal was ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29 ... Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs. But a chief goal was ...