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The B&O Railroad From Municipal Enterprise To Private Corporation
A cautionary tale about the costs and benefits of public/private partnerships.
by
Matthew A. Crenson
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The Metropole
on
March 9, 2022
A Utopia of Useful Things
On the nineteenth-century artists and thinkers who pictured a future of abundance powered by steam.
by
Michael Rawson
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 24, 2021
Edifice Complex
Restoring the term “burnout” to its roots in landlord arson puts the dispossession of poor city dwellers at its center.
by
Bench Ansfield
via
Jewish Currents
on
January 3, 2023
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The Revolution Whisperer
The overlooked first mentor of Thomas Jefferson.
by
Greg Shaw
via
HNN
on
February 20, 2022
How New York City Found Clean Water
For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.
by
Jonathan Schifman
via
Smithsonian
on
November 25, 2019
In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism
"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
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Black Perspectives
on
March 5, 2018
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It’s Time to Ditch Coal, Not Clean It
In the 19th century, Americans abandoned one source of dirty energy. Can they do it again?
by
Raymond Malewitz
via
Made By History
on
July 26, 2017
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