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The dust had barely settled on the American Revolution when new unrest erupted in western Massachuse
In light of growing concerns about the coronavirus, we’re revisiting an episode we ran last spring.&
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UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses Los Angeles, its never-quenched thirst for wa
With the failure of the Watterson brothers’ banks, the Owens Valley community was forced to abandon
After years of letting their water be used by the city of Los Angeles, the farmers and ranchers of t
By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish li
By 1907, the city of Los Angeles had found a solution to its water problem. Two hundred miles north
By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a
The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites,
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In September 2019 Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren invoked the memory
In the wake of the biggest workplace catastrophe in the city of New York, the survivors of the Trian
Two years after the labor strikes that shook the city of New York, the workers of Triangle factory r
Inspired by the labor strikes at Triangle and other factories in Lower Manhattan, more than 30,000 g
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan, claiming the li
New York City was founded on the Dutch principles of tolerance and capitalism, both of which were ne
In the years after Adrian Van der Donck won a municipal charter for New Amsterdam, and under Peter S