They were proud citizens of a country that did not want them. It was Independence Day, in 1895, in San Francisco’s Chinese quarter. Men with long braids who were dressed in traditional Chinese attire hobnobbed inside a building on Clay […]
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The town of Rock Springs sprouts out of a vacant landscape of sandstone cliffs and sagebrush in southern Wyoming. It is a fading former mining town, where herds of deer now meander through the streets. A century-old sign overlooking the
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, filth of every kind accumulated on the streets of New York. The land was boggy and lacked proper drainage. Epidemics ravaged many of the city’s impoverished neighborhoods. In the summer of 1864, an
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