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People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. August 1936 OKIES

“We declared war on poverty,” Ronald Reagan famously proclaimed, “and poverty won.” And indeed, as measured by the official poverty rate, the United...

We really don't realize how lucky we are until we take a look back at the medical history books and recognize that most surgical practices during the Victorian era (1837--1901) were basically medieval. Between the 1840s and the mid-1890s, there were some radical changes in the operating room which went on to become a surgical

When black American troops stationed in an English town faced off against white US Army military police.

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