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By Shari Peoples The Great Depression is considered the worst economic crisis in American history. While there were numerous contributing factors to this devastating event, widespread panic among banking customers led to bank failures and played a vital role in the country’s descent from a recession into depression. As fear drove depositors to empty their… Read more
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By Shari Peoples At the time of America’s founding, most of the country held narrow views of acceptable religion. Thomas Jefferson, a proponent of exercising free choice in religion, was instrumental in seeing legislation passed by the Virginia Assembly that would protect that freedom. In his Republican Notes on Religion, Jefferson set forth the idea… Read more
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