Suppose that a study showed that people liked to “keep up with the Jones,” and in order to maintain a stable utility people actually needed their incomes to rise as much as the average income in America. It’s not that far-fetched, surveys in the US show little change in average happ...
The general national perception of Detroit’s housing might be of a city that resembles the South Bronx in the late 1970’s — long stretches of dense but abandoned walk-up apartment buildings with a smattering of deteriorated single-family homes. The truth, however, is that Detroit may have ...
A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused US Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate The more than 900 passengers of the M.S. St. Louis were denied entry by immigration authorities in multiple countries in the lead‑up to the Holocaust. ...
The Underground Railroad was the code name for a secret organization that helped slaves escape from the bondage of slavery in the southern slave states to freedom in the free states: Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Click for facts and worksheets in PD