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With a POD after the Civil War, make the Republicans stray from the business friendly orientation to labor rights

<menacing synthesiser music> <a cube of fours made up of fours rotates supplanted by historic video, film and even black and white film footage vaguely referencing the voice over> The Amphetamine and Heroin epidemics The problems in the Towers Biker and Yugoslav bombings Burning children on a...

The Tarnished Age: An Alternate History of the Gilded Age Prologue: An Epilogue "If only our dear Hawkins family could have known the lessons we have learned today. The beautiful Laura Hawkins would have been much helped if she’d known that the levers of power in Washington are not so much...

We think of George today (when we think of him at all) as an intellectual rather than a politician, but he did make a few bids for office in his own right. The most successful of those was his first run for Mayor of New York in 1886. As the candidate of the United Labor Party, he garnered 31% of...

Today, Debs is remembered for his role in the 1894 Pullman Strike and his activities as a Socialist politician during the Progressive era. But he was originally a Democrat and a capitalist who served one term in the Indiana General Assembly. It wasn't until reading Socialist literature after...

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