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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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Movie Review - George and the Middle Class

The movie foresees social problems that have come to a head. There is the creation of a simulated broad prosperity based upon cheap credit. The theme of suicide, which was remarkably explicit and dark for a movie of this time. George instead serves as as the vehicle, the sort of launching pad, you can say, off of which other people are able to take flight.

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