2022 in Historical Context -- How Do You Like Your New Gilded Age?
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Strike to the Elites of the United States
The strike demonstrated that an interconnected working class linked by the railways could bring society to a halt almost instantly. This workforce especially most of all had to be controlled with police with militias and with armies. A court case Wilson versus new concluded that the government could take over control of the rails if it wanted to not necessarily as war powers but because of the interstate commerce clause. The US railroad administration takes up stewardship of the whole rail system.
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