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Philanthropists Will Not Save Us

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Public Books on October 17, 2018
Trump speaks to auto workers.
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Donald Trump Wants to Take Republicans Back to Their Roots

The GOP was once the party of protectionism, while the Democrats led the way on free trade.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on March 12, 2018

The Rage of White Folk

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on September 27, 2017

Before Trump vs. the NFL, There was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK

Years after he integrated the MLB, Robinson publicly badgered John F. Kennedy on civil rights.
by Steven Levingston via Retropolis on September 24, 2017

The Anti-Capitalist Woman Who Created Monopoly—Before Others Cashed In

The beloved board game's long-hidden origin story debunks the myth of a male lone genius.
by Mary Pilon via What It Means to Be American on March 27, 2017
Oneida Community members outside their mansion house, ca. 1865-1875.
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When We Say “Share Everything,” We Mean Everything

On the Oneida Community, a radical religious organization practicing “Bible communism,” and eventually, manufacturing silverware.
via BackStory on November 17, 2016
Harry Silberstein driving a Paper-Calmenson scrap metal pick-up wagon, ca. 1900. (Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
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Scrapping in the Streets

A discussion of the booming 19th-century trade in scrap metal.
via BackStory on August 4, 2016
A postcard illustrating the Carnegie blast furnaces along the Monongahela River, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1908-1909.

The Homestead Strike

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
by Franky Abbott via Digital Public Library of America on April 6, 2016

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