US History, Short not Sweet
[print_link] [email_link] From Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court: No country on earth grew faster than the United States during the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Between 1860 and 1900 the nation’s population swelled from 31 to 75 million, . . . The number of farms grew from two million to six million, and the development of machines like combines, reapers, and harvesters turned barren land into “amber waves of grain”. . . . It […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: American history, class warfare, farmers, law, slavery
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