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2021 in Historical Context -- Global Crisis, Labor Unrest, and "It's A Wonderful Life"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The American Dream, a New American Dream

The movie reflects an effort to put forward a vision of a middle class america. It celebrates the sort of yankee protestant mentality of thrift, devotion to family and local mindedness. And that it would embrace domesticity, as symbolized by single family homes,. The film makes no mention of labor struggles, unions, demands for higher pay, or collective action.

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