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Birth of the income tax: Economic inequality then and now
With April 15’s tax day still fresh in mind, this Behind the News explores the origin of the federal income tax and finds ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her
Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...
The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs
Trump’s tariffs have instigated fresh controversy over an issue that has long been a point of contention in American ...
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The Challenges Of Finding And Being An African-American Physician In Nineteenth-Century America
What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...
New Britain art museum gets two National Gallery of Art works for America's 250th
Paintings by Robert Seldon Duncanson and Winslow Homer are coming in May to the New Britain Museum of American Art.
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Domestic Manufacturing Isn't the Key to Good Paying Jobs
Yet, this vision is based upon a misunderstanding of the causes and consequences of American industrial decline. As the story so often goes, in the late-19th century, America became a prosperous ...