It was Great Depression 2.0, with new “Hoovervilles”—the name given by 1930s Democrats to the shantytowns that sprang up on the Republican President Herbert Hoover's watch—apparently back ...

A census taken in March 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women, ages 15 to 73, living in 479 shacks along the tidal flat Hooverville. Of the population there, 72 percent of residents were white, with ...

Central Park Hooverville with Central Park West in the Background in 1932.NY Daily News Archive via Getty ImagesDuring the Great Depression, in the 1930s, as millions of people lost their jobs and ...

The production designer of "Perry Mason" tells IndieWire how the economic diversity of '30s L.A. found its fullest expression in the Hooverville set. In the headings for his lookbook, Cunningham ...

Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s ...

A Rock Island Hooverville grew out of a former shantytown created by hobos in the 1920s along the banks of the Mississippi River. Hoovervilles were forming coast to coast during R.I. Hooverville ...