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The Road to Calvary

…and The Civil Rights Struggle, the social unrest, The Civil Rights Legislation, the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the beginnings of The Rust Belt, the beginnings of large…

1877

…impression. The panic of 1873, when a post-Civil War speculative bubble burst, launched a depression that lasted until 1879. By Christmas of 1876, whatever centennial spirit there was had mostly…

The Coup

…Americans less equal. — For all those years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, and for almost one-hundred years after, slave state politicians, then ex-confederate state politicians, successfully impeded…

Five Questions with David Hogg

by Joyce Vance Civil Discourse David Hogg survived the tragic 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He went on to become one of a…