Today is the anniversary of the devastating October 29th Stock Market Crash. Heather Cox Richardson and I decided to collaborate again in a video based on this major American historical event.
In the recording below, Heather talks about what happened and why, what forces led to the crash and what the ramifications were. I draw my own commentary on what she is saying.
As always in these videos we do, it is connected to what is happening in our politics today.
I thoroughly enjoy these collaborations and hope you do as well.
More later today, thanks for being here. If you do not subscribe to Heather’s Substack, you should! Here it is:
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G. Harding, giving them control of both Congress and the White House. After the moralizing of the Progressive Era and the horrors of World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed it, Americans looked forward to an era of “nor…
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