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In 1778 it was clear to the British that three years of fighting in New England and the Mid-Atlantic had settled nothing. Loyalist uprisings that were expected in places like New York and Pennsylvania had not materialized. France had intervened on the side of the United States, convincing the British to hunker down in the …
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Going Nuclear in Idaho FallsAmerica’s only fatal reactor accident was the culmination of a costly battle between the army and navy at the dawn of the Atomic Age. John Byrnes knelt atop the U.S. Army’s SL-1 nu… Read MoreThe Founding Father of American Financial DisasterHow Thomas Jefferson’s hatred of money men spawned an unruly regulatory and banking system and led to our current crisis. No one doubts that Thomas Jefferson was a genius who deser… Read MoreRendezvous: P.T. Barnum Meets Queen VictoriaGeneral Tom Thumb was the shameless showman’s ticket to Buckingham Palace, respectability and a bigger payday. P.T. Barnum may be the only man in history who ever attempted to achi… Read MoreLessons From Harder TimesThe World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles Kindleberger, University of California, 1973 Reminding us that the Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon, Kindleberger finds its… Read MorePennsylvania’s Utopian CandymanChocolate tycoon Milton Hershey took tomorrow and turned it into a dream for the working class. For Milton S. Hershey, the smell of success was sweet indeed. It smelled like chocol… Read More
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