Industrial Revolution

<p><span class="deck">The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT </span></p>
<p>Old Hickory's attack on Biddle's bank had some unexpected consequences</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One man measures his life-span against the length of recorded history and finds tidings of comfort and hope</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For a hundred years now ,Americans have been reading as comedy Mark Twain’s dark indictment of chivalry, technology, and all of humanity.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1820, their daily existence was practically medieval; 30 later, many of them were living the modern life.</span></p>

<p>The birth of the global village</p>

<p><span class="deck">Its waters drove our first Industrial Revolution, and were poisoned by it. Henry David Thoreau believed that the Merrimack might not run pure again for thousands of years, but today, it is a welcoming pathway through a hundred-mile-long red-brick museum of America’s rise to power.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a debt-ridden banana republic became the greatest economic engine the world has ever known</span></p>

<p>New England industrialists hired thousands of young farm girls to work together in early textile mills—and spawned a host of unintended consequences.</p>