Do kids not have to read The Jungle in high school anymore? Was that just my English teacher?
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Kevin M. Kruse
When I tell students about the realities of pre-New Deal industrial life — where it was so commonplace for workers to die on the job that a Pittsburgh newspaper once celebrated that “only” 127 had died the previous month — they can’t believe it.
That’s the world Trump wants us to return to
That’s the world Trump wants us to return to
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Air used to be brown.
Clear air, drinkable water, untainted food, not dying in the mill, all hard fought change.
I feel like most of the really important stuff was relegated to summer reading, which is about as sad as many other things about how we are taught.