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How the Erie Canal Changed America Forever
Opened on October 26, 1825, the 363-mile Erie Canal out-earned New York State's construction debt within a year and made New York City the country's commercial capital.
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How Americans Choose a Congregation — and Why Switching Is More Common Than Ever
Americans have always shopped for congregations. From colonial dissenters to the accelerating religious switching behind today's unaffiliated boom, choosing a faith is a national habit.
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How Prohibition Accidentally Modernized America
The dry era was meant to restore an older moral order. Instead it built the federal machinery, the nightlife and the policing habits we still live with.