the Great Depression

Public Books has published an essay, 'Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks', exploring how Americans communicated across vast distances during the Depression era. Tagged under history, labor, and culture, the piece examines the era's communication networks and what they reveal about economic hardship. Readers in bookish and academic circles online have been sharing the essay, drawing parallels between Depression-era media and contemporary debates about labor and connection.

Yahoo Finance revisits the story of Rocky Road and its popular association with the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. The confection's name is often linked to the wrecked financial landscape of that era, with several origin stories claiming places in the dessert's creation. The piece explores where the legend ends and the documented history begins, as interest in Depression-era food stories resurfaces among readers of financial history.