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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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Self-Help Before the Shelf: How America Invented the Improvement Book
Long before paperbacks, Americans were writing advice books. From Franklin's almanack to Dale Carnegie, the history of self-help books runs deeper than you think.
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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.