Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University, and author of Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.

John Vachon, 1939 / Library of Congress

The Lessons of the Great Depression

In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.
- Lizabeth Cohen
- May 17, 2020