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A postcard of Michigan Central Station in Detroit, circa 1913

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This Train Station is Poised to Help Detroit Get Back on Track

Michigan Central Station was once the tallest train station in the world. Then as Detroit fell on hard times, so did its train hub. Can its rebirth help revitalize Motor City?

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President Bill Clinton, with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at his side, emphatically denies having affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.  (Photo by Diana Walker//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

The 1990s: When Technology Upended Our World

Remember when a little-known web blog helped blow up a presidency? And a music-streaming service called Napster wreaked havoc in the recording industry?

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A political cartoon from 1883 aimed at wealthy businessmen, including Vanderbilt, that depicts laborers awash in a sea of hard times, struggling to hold up the industries with low wage jobs on their backs as the industrialists and their millions weigh them down.

Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ?

The first Gilded Age saw massive wealth inequalities, hyperpartisanship, virulent anti-immigrant sentiment and growing concern about money in politics. Sound familiar?

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Raise Up, a sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas, on the grounds of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy, the site demands a reckoning with with the lynching of thousands of black people in a decades-long campaign of racist terror.

‘Why Did They Hate Us?’: Explaining the Lynching Memorial to My Son

How does one share this painful chapter of America’s past? An historian, and mother, describes the indelible impact of her family’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

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