By the mid-1850s, the city of New York was faced with severe traffic congestion. Engineers and city planners in the metropolis came up with a variety of different ideas to try to solve this problem. Last week’s blog covered an attempt to build a railway underground, an idea which would take several decades to come …
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In the late 1800s, many of the growing American cities suffered from a woeful state of public transport. The streets were terribly congested, and fights often broke out in the areas most prone to traffic jams. One potential idea to alleviate the traffic congestion was to build a railway underground. One challenge of building underground …
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In the modern era, it is hard to imagine anything but the two-party Duopoly in the US, at least at the federal level. Despite the fact that 62% of Americans support the idea of a third party in the abstract, third parties do not do well in national elections. Even in 2016, where the Libertarian …
The Gilded Age in the United States took place in the last few decades of the 19th century, and was a time of vast economic gains for the wealthy at the same time as the working class struggled to capture these gains in wealth as their own. It was an era of rampant political corruption, …
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