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Before the ink dried on the New Deal, a more insidious blueprint for segregation was already being drawn across the American landscape. This wasn’t a policy born of economic crisis, but a deep-seated prejudice that carved up neighborhoods, dictating where citizens could live, thrive, or even be seen. This was the era of “redlining,” a … Read more
In the annals of American history, few stories resonate with the same blend of hardship, faith, and the pursuit of a radical new life as the voyage of the Mayflower. It’s a tale that begins not with a grand fanfare, but with a quiet, desperate departure from the familiar shores of Plymouth, England, in the … Read more
The air in America, thick with the smoke of a devastating Civil War, began to clear in 1865. But the silence that followed was not one of peace, but of a tense, uncertain pause. The nation, bruised and broken, stood at a precipice, tasked with a monumental challenge: to rebuild not just cities and infrastructure, … Read more