Lecture: Hard Times in the Great Depression: Challenges to American Ambition

Lecture Outline:

-The Numbers
-The Better Angels of Our Nature
-“Natural” Disasters, Manmade Disasters & Exodus
-The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
-The 1932 Election

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First published in Life Magazine’s February 1937 issue, this photo was taken in Louisville after the flooding of the Ohio River, which killed almost 400 people and displaced about a million more across four states.